The phrase "as the fable" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to introduce a comparison or to refer to something as if it were part of a fable, similar to how the phrase "once upon a time" is used. Example: As the fable goes, a hare and a tortoise decided to have a race.
Cinderella, as the fable goes and as it plays out each March in college basketball, is supposed to be meek and grateful.
The satisfaction inherent in my self "entering the game" became less pleasing recently as the Fable series or Saints Row 3 realistically age your character as time passes.
As the fable goes along, that nation swings from extreme right to extreme left; yet at the end all signs point toward a spasmodic reversal of the pendulum.
As the fable accumulates more layers of ambiguity, it recalls "The Cage," the seldom-seen pilot episode of "Star Trek" in which the starship commander (played by Jeffrey Hunter) is disfigured in battle and imprisoned by a mentally advanced, but physically depleted tribe of telepathic aliens who use him for their pleasure.
And the story itself doesn't end up a downer as the fable unfolds, telling how even a loutish, self-absorbed lawyer can ultimately find redemption.
Yes, they're behaving venally -- but as the fable of the scorpion and the frog says: It's their nature.
"As in the fable, it is the hobbits who are the heroes and save the land.
A. As in the fable of the ant and the grasshopper, diligent preparation is the key.
Then, as in the fable about the emperor's new clothes, the nakedness of the existing European construct suddenly became plain to everyone, and the euro zone's woes began.
Peering at them, I leaned my head against the shuddering glass of my window and, as in the fable of the burning bush, saw instead of the Africans a mirage.
As in the fable of the robbers who fall to murdering each other for the loot, the extraordinary riches to be made from these films leads to prolonged quarrelling, and sometimes – as in 2012's Snow White and the Huntsman – the storyline limps along across terrain strewn with crowd-pleasing pieties.
