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Like Kafka, Schulz sublimated the horrors that surrounded him into vivid allegories of the fantastic and the extraordinary.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Its roots lie in the medieval stonemasons' guilds, and members still meet in "lodges" to carry out secretive initiation rituals and ceremonies based on allegories such as the building of King Solomon's Temple.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

The LP synthesized decades of popular music — soul, jazz, R&B, rock ‘n’ roll — to create a new musical language, while its depth-filled lyrics are a rich text full of allegories and religious imagery.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025

The picture is part of Roberts’ effort to claim the stories of heroic judges who battled Jim Crow in the civil rights era as allegories for judges facing legitimate critiques today.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2025

But Diderot’s peculiar chapter also serves as a warning: with its dream framing, its monsters and its allegories, its linguistic slipperiness, it conveys a sense of difficulty.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton