(Placing his arms round the shoulders of an old couple.) Dear old friends!
In Kafka’s “On Parables” a skeptic says that the abstruse words of the sages cannot really solve the real-life problems we face, since we can never actually “go over” into that fully spiritual realm these words point to. A sage responds by saying (parabolically) that we can overcome all these real-life problems simply by ourselves “becoming parables.”
