[phantomworker]

I don't mean to take sides here, but I think we are talking about a powerful form of expression called allegory.

The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form; an extended metaphor.

A story, picture, or play employing such representation. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Herman Melville's Moby Dick are allegories.

A symbolic representation: The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice.

Allegory: used only in Gal. 4:24, where the apostle refers to the history of Isaac the free-born, and Ishmael the slave-born, and makes use of it allegorically. Every parable is an allegory. Nathan (2 Sam. 12:1-4) addresses David in an allegorical narrative. In the eightieth Psalm there is a beautiful allegory: "Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt," etc. In Eccl. 12:2-6, there is a striking allegorical description of old age.

[patton]

hey - I gotta go look that up!

Darn. More research.

[nopardons]

LIES, passed off as fact, are NOT an "allegory"; neither are someone else's writing, passed off as one's one, kosher. And both of those things are exactly what was done by patton.

Oh, so purloined work and fiction claimed as factual history is now " an extended metaphor"? Not in this universe, it isn't...unless in real life, you are Ward Churchill! Ward, is that you, you lying, wannabe Indian ?

Instead of trying to make excuses for him/your other nic, stay out of this battle.