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   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   westprog wrote:   
   > "Steve Hayes"  wrote in message   
   > news:4fhgt1td54gijc31etookgoj1m71bp3vdp@4ax.com...   
   > ....   
   >> To call a whole work "allegory", as some insist on doing with the Narnia   
   >> stories (illegitimately, i believe) is quite different. In allegorical   
   > works,   
   >> the allegory is intended by the author,   
   > ....   
   >   
   > I think that an allegory needs to have a single interpretation. It isn't   
   > really possible to have multiple viewpoints as to what Pilgrim's Progress or   
   > Animal Farm are allegories of.   
   >   
   > If a work plausibly suggests multiple interpretations, then it certainly   
   > isn't an allegory.   
      
   Dante would disagree.   
      
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   that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,   
   which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."   
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