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Fables of the Reconstruction (or Reconstruction of the Fables) is the third studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was released on June 10, 1985, through I.R.S. Records . It was the band's first album recorded outside of the U.S., with sessions taking place at Livingston Studios in London with producer Joe Boyd .
Schleicher's fable is a text composed as a reconstructed version of the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language, published by August Schleicher in 1868. Schleicher was the first scholar to compose a text in PIE. The fable is entitled Avis akvÄsas ka ("The Sheep [Ewe] and the Horses [Eoh]"). At later dates, various scholars have published revised ...
"Driver 8" is the second single from American musical group R.E.M.'s third album, Fables of the Reconstruction, released in September 1985. The song peaked at number 22 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
Actor/singer Michael Shannon and guitarist Jason Narducy had so much fun performing R.E.M.'s 'Murmur' on tour this year that they're heading back on the road in 2025.
The story is related as an example of telling a fable in Aristotle's work on rhetoric [2] and is there ascribed to the poet Stesichorus. The fable was also told by the Roman poet Horace , widening its significance as an example of how one should be content with little rather than losing personal liberty in quest of more.
In addition, many Southern Gothic novels and short stories have been adapted for the stage by artists who are not the original authors. The Tony Award winning musical The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a prime example of this approach to theatricalization of the Southern Gothic genre.
The fable is introduced as an illustration into a longer Egyptian myth [34] in a papyrus of indeterminate date towards the start of the Common Era. [35] A lion previously unacquainted with man comes across examples of his cruelty and exploitation of other animals and decides to hunt him down.
The folly of trying to keep up with the Joneses is the conclusion drawn by La Fontaine's Fables from the Phaedrus version of the tale, applying it to the artistocratic times in which La Fontaine lived ("The frog that wished to be as big as the ox", Fables I.3):