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I thought you knew and it was deliberate
this paragraph is a dead giveaway
That part was deliberate.
edit: It occurs to me you might want to better understand an allegory and what it means.
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why so hostile? I hope my comment about probability did not come across as accusatory, I liked the piece. I thought this tale was an allegory about imprecise thinking about numerical odds.
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I'm not hostile. The allegory is about what you walk away with having read the tale. I'm glad you took something away from it.
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also, just to explain my original comment a bit...
it does feel head-spinning, but in a good way (because I assume it is meant to be absurdist?) It's head-spinning because the mathematics is presented as accurate by the narrator when they clearly aren't (deliberately so I presume), the characters in the tale also take the odds as accurate (when they shouldn't), they act on those odds and interpret the results in strange ways, and then the narrator draws some true wisdom out of the story (watch out for hidden information, not all horses have equal chance, etc)
The resulting package is one that toes the line between plausible and absurd. So, good job! (If that's what you were going for)
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An allegory, by definition, is a tale meant to indicate a larger truth.
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i'm not sure what the larger truth is, and I suspect you won't tell me
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That's up to the reader! Otherwise, it ruins the allegory!
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oh wait, it's about the writing contest