A Fable Fable
By Joe Thompson

Once there were two fables. The older fable was continually pointing out the shortcomings of everyone around him– which as you might imagine did not make him very popular.
The younger fable tried not to say much about anything at all, and of course everyone liked him.
"This is our favorite fable," everyone said, "He never tells us how stupid, greedy, vain, or arrogant we are. He never preaches or moralizes. We like him."
That fable got so full of himself that he began to say, " I am the perfect fable, much better than that old foolish fable who is always trying to make a point."
Less than a week later, the young fable was fired and had to take a job as a short story. He didn't keep that job very long and soon was working as a descriptive paragraph. When he lost that job, he fell apart into a lot of unconnected sentences that no one ever bothered to read. The older fable just shook his head and told the following moral:

A good fable is like a knife- it has to have a point.

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