Kind reviewers have said that they are a bit like Aesop's fables.

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He went on to make REM's third album Fables of the Reconstruction and was executive producer on the 1988 film Scandal about the Profumo affair.

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Then comes one of Mr. Mamet's many Hollywood fables.

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None have ever been seen alive, and the animal often features in maritime legends and fables, including Jules Verne's 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea.

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S. for no longer than five years, from 1959 to 1964, and that all his subsequent fables are founded on the template of that distant time.

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