But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

It was not, whatever tale was told by tails.

As with most mythology, there is a tale which offers an alternative version of these events: in Argonautica ( iv. 760 ) Zeus ' sister and wife Hera alludes to Thetis ' chaste resistance to the advances of Zeus, that Thetis was so loyal to Hera's marriage bond that she coolly rejected him.

The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.

Among others, John Heath has observed, " The unalterable kernel of the tale was a hunter's transformation into a deer and his death in the jaws of his hunting dogs.

The tale is treated with scepticism by Walter Goffart, who observes that it conflicts with the Origo Gentis Langobardorum, where she was captured only after the death of her father.

According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.

Many artists, including Martin Schongauer, Hieronymus Bosch, Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dalí, have depicted these incidents from the life of Anthony ; in prose, the tale was retold and embellished by Gustave Flaubert in The Temptation of Saint Anthony.

However, although this approach — the " shift ... from the quasi-historical or legendary materials ... to the folktale line of inquiry ," was seen as a step in the right direction, " The Bear's Son " tale was seen as too universal.

Cervantes was a gambler, and the main characters of his tale Rinconete y Cortadillo, from Novelas Ejemplares, are a couple of cheats working in Seville.

The band's debut single, " Smalltown Boy ", the tale of a boy who was cast away by his family for being homosexual, was a hit, peaking at No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart.

The legend was a popular motif in art during Greek and Roman antiquity and served as an antithetical cautionary tale.

One of these, " Surrender into the Roses " ( also known as " Carmilla " and " Coming Up ") was inspired by the tale.

The last new comic book story drawn by Carl Barks was a Daisy Duck tale (" The Dainty Daredevil ") published in Walt Disney Comics Digest issue 5 ( Nov. 1968 ).

In this tale, a fisherman discovers a heavy locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid, who then has the chest broken open only to find inside it the dead body of a young woman who was cut into pieces.

In a well-known but probably apocryphal tale, Archimedes was given the task of determining whether King Hiero's goldsmith was embezzling gold during the manufacture of a golden wreath dedicated to the gods and replacing it with another, cheaper alloy.

Since King Valdemar II of Denmark was married to the Portuguese princess, Berengária of Portugal, it is not unthinkable that the origin of the story, if not the flag, was the Spanish tale or a similar tale, which again might have been inspired by an even older legend.

In it, the assassin's sword was seen hanging by a single strand of horsehair above Le Peletier's body, a concept inspired by the proverbial ancient tale of the sword of Damocles, which illustrated the insecurity of power and position.

It is thought that Shakespeare never read Gesta Danorum, and instead had access to an auxiliary version of the tale describing the downfall of the Prince of Denmark, whose real name-Amleth-was used in anagram by Shakespeare for Hamlet.

In 1932, H. P. Lovecraft also used the figure of The Black Man in his tale " The Dreams in the Witch-House " as a synonym for the Devil, but he also uses the term and description for Nyarlathotep, a malevolent entity of his own creation.

While the Victorian version of the show drew on the morality of its day, the Punch & Judy College of Professors considers that the 20th-and 21st-century versions of the tale have evolved into something more akin to a primitive version of The Simpsons, in which a bizarre family is used as vehicle for grotesque visual comedy and a sideways look at contemporary society.

Boccaccio probably used a French version of the tale.

Boccaccio probably invented this tale himself, though, and used well known jokers as characters.

Panfilo's tale comes from Jean Bodel's fabliau " Gombert et les deus Clers ," a story also used by Chaucer for The Reeve's Tale.

At the opening of the tale, Salieri is an old man, having long outlived his fame, and is convinced he used poison to assassinate Mozart.

In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in " fairy tale ending " ( a happy ending ) or " fairy tale romance " ( though not all fairy tales end happily ).

Colloquially, a " fairy tale " or " fairy story " can also mean any farfetched story or tall tale ; it's used especially of any story that not only isn't true, but couldn't possibly be true.

For the scene where Lavinia reveals her rapists by writing in the sand, Shakespeare may have used a story from the first book of Metamorphoses ; the tale of the rape of Io by Zeus, where, to prevent her divulging the story, he turns her into a cow.

The Trojan Horse is a tale from the Trojan War about the subterfuge that the Greeks used to enter the city of Troy and end the conflict.

Plautus, the Roman comedian, used this tale to present Amphitryon, a burlesque play.

* In one episode of Tiziano Sclavi's Dylan Dog, the Nightmare Investigator, Sköll and his brother Hati, were used as characters in tale N ° 289 " La via degli enigmi " (" The Way of Puzzles ") and N ° 290 " L ' erede Oscuro " (" The Dark Heir "); in which they are evil creatures who serve the main antagonist.

* In one episode of Tiziano Sclavi's Dylan Dog, the Nightmare Investigator, Hati and his brother Sköll, were used as characters in tale N ° 289 " La via degli enigmi " (" The Way of Puzzles ") and N ° 290 " L ' erede Oscuro " (" The Dark Heir "); in which they are evil creatures who serve the main antagonist.

Lackey later used Anderson's tale as the basis for her 2008 novel, The Snow Queen.

Bug Jack Barron ( 1969 ), a pre-cyberpunk tale of a cynical, exploitative talk-show host who gradually uncovers a conspiracy concerning an immortality treatment and the methods used in that treatment, was serialised in the British magazine New Worlds during Michael Moorcock's editorship.

The album spawned several singles, including the dark " Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa ", a tale of a young girl who could no longer take the sexual abuse from her father, and the lead single " Ring Ring Ring ( Ha Ha Hey )", a story about the people who used De La's recent fame to try to launch their own careers.

In fact Urashima's tale, as the other 3 included in the Otogizōshi, is used mostly as a starting point to espose Dazai's own thoughts and musings.

The reasons an author might choose the roman à clef format include satire ; writing about controversial topics and / or reporting inside information on scandals without giving rise to charges of libel ; the opportunity to turn the tale the way the author would like it to have gone ; the opportunity to portray personal, autobiographical experiences without having to expose the author as the subject ; avoiding self-incrimination or incrimination of others that could be used as evidence in civil, criminal, or disciplinary proceedings ; and the settling of scores.

This plot device dates back to the medieval Arabian Nights tale of " The City of Brass ", in which a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition journey across the Sahara to find a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn.

Howard also used the name of ' Nabonidus ' ( father of Belshazzar ) in the Conan tale " Rogues in the House " which appeared in Marvel's Conan the Barbarian # 11.

Hoare used a parody tale, The Emperor's Old Clothes, to advocate simplification over embellishment, for clothing or computer sorting algorithms.

The episode is one of the most notorious cases of mass hysteria, and has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, religious extremism, false accusations and lapses in due process.