Parables of Hippolyte the Fabulist

"The Things We See and Cannot Unsee"

By: Hippolyte Flandrin

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Hippolyte Flandrin, almost from the moment of birth, was told who he is and what he is, he was told to be an individual and to be alone in the lonely crowd, he was told what he ought to live and to die for, and he was condemned to ride a bus with an assembly of strangers like a pile of leaves swept together by the wind at the end of a dead-end street. On the road to find out why, Hippo crossed paths with Diogenes, Socrates, Siddhartha, Kierkegaard, Jesus, Hardy, Wittgenstein, Joyce and like-minded travelers. He figured out nothing except how to live a happy life guided by reason and compassion. Hippo began to share this wisdom, as if to teach algebra to a dog, but trouble followed. So he clothed his wisdom in pretty little stories or parables of the things we can see and cannot unsee. His friends were profoundly engaged and enlightened and so collected 50 of their favorite parables in this book for you. The irrationality and hypocrisy of the rule-following and role-playing of the world we are condemned to live in cause stress and depression in many people. Some of them lose control, become human beings, and begin to think for themselves. Hippolyte writes about those people. He may excite you, he may horrify you, he may amuse you, he may make you believing or unbelieving, and he may shake your sanity. But as the tree absorbs the rain, Hippolyte Flandrin will awaken you.