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I think the difference between the allegoric neighbour/reader and employee/employer is that the employer is paying the employee.

Stepping out of the (allegoric [2]) cave was once the first step to advance as a species.

It also makes translations to other languages hell, when noun genders are used for allegoric purposes.

The usual allegoric rebuttal is to show how many types of wheel there are, and how wheels have improved over time.

Modern Christians try to justify them by allegoric interpretations but the logic of this approach is very weak and basically indefensible.

And yes, back then, the word virgin could actually have allegoric meaning(young/innocent/beautiful/...

The latitude for allegoric interpretation is confined to the Old Testament.

> when noun genders are used for allegoric purposes Ugh, really?

What we see in life is explained by science, that brings in new progress - we do not need a group that claims that gif dud everything, to tell later that it was just allegoric when science explained it.

(I'm not sure why people always need to bolt on those interpretations, they are maybe eventually more true with Tolkien as he definitely took some experiences into his fantasy, but also believing him that there were not any allegoric intentions, just fantasy creation.

> The convinced Marxist, the practising psychoanalyst, the structural anthropologist, will be outraged at the thought that his beliefs, that his analyses of the human situation, are mythologies and allegoric constructs directly derivative from the religious world-image which he has sought to replace.

Doesn't need to be censorship, maybe just personal preference of the owner who didn't like the comparibly explicit allegoric theme of Vermeers earlier work, compared to the "open" interpretation of the letter without the cupid.

Allegoric prose does not help, in this case.