Oh, you mean like Orpheo rescuing Euniphon from the Underworld?” said Roland.Rob Anybody just stared.“It’s a myth from Ephebe,” Roland went on. “It’s supposed to be a love story, but it’s really a metaphor for the annual return of summer. There’s a lot of versions of that story.”(...)“A metaphor is a kind o’ lie to help people understand what’s true,” said Billy Bigchin, but this didn’t help much.
-Terry Pratchett
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