[1]page 1, "There was once a wealthy farmer": N. J. Dawood, translator, Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1973), page 20. page 7, C. S. Lewis on parable: See Louis MacNeice's discussion of literary critical perspectives on parable in The Varieties of Parable [The Clark Lectures, 1963] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965), page 5. C. S. Lewis's observations appear in The Allegory of Love (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1936), page 44.