![]() ![]() Here is fun and sly gleaning of lore and guide posts to pleasant roads and a hint of fine taste. One of the choice bits of fathering is telling fairy tales in the heel of the evening when the tireless legs have begun to drag a little and the running tongue pauses a bit in its outpouring. ~Harry Potter, "The Knight of the Pierced Heart," In Thy Heart's Garden, 1917Ī song ain't nothin' in the world but a story just wrote with music to it. The end perchance a sunny smile, perchance a tear. In mine, full well I know she waits a tale to hear Shine her expectant eyes and, when her hands are laid As when the heavens display the northern light, The firelight glows and at my feet a little maidĭoth sit. ~Francis Spufford (b.1964), The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading, 2002 while this world would be subtly altered too, changed in status by the knowledge that it had an outside. A tincture of this world's reality would enter the other world. If, in a story, you found the one panel in the fabric of the workaday world that was hinged, and it opened, and it turned out that behind the walls of the world flashed the gold and peacock blue of something else, and you were able to pass through, that would be a moment in which all the decisions that had been taken in this world, and all the choices that had been made, and all the facts that had been settled, would be up for grabs again: all possibilities would be renewed, for who knew what lay on the other side?Īnd once opened, the door would never entirely shut behind you either. I wanted there to be a chance to pass through a portal, and by doing so to pass from rusty reality with its scaffolding of facts and events into the freedom of story. the ones that started in this world and took you to another. I didn't go to the worlds of story to be reminded that on a dark road your anger and your cruelty pace just behind you, daring you to turn your head, unless you let them travel safely within you. ~Craig Childs, March 2019, Bean Tree Farm, Tucson Mountains, Arizona, Introduction to Virga & Bone: Essays from Dry Places, 2019 It should feel like pulling something burning out of yourself. ~American Indian sayingĪny story should be this way. It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story. Those who tell the stories rule the world. It is said that the first storyteller crept at night to listen to the gods talking in their sleep - so each tale collected contained the breath of gods. In ev'ry ear it spread, on ev'ry tongue it grew. Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told Īnd all who hear'd it made enlargements too, ![]() There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. ~Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, 2006įor the story - from Rumpelstiltskin to War and Peace - is one of the basic tools invented by the mind of man, for the purpose of gaining understanding. ![]() Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. The story-teller is listened to, respectfully and silently, because he is expert testimony. That is probably why I became a good listener, although I must have learned something of it from my Indian friends. Talk for talk's sake never meant anything to me. Even words, it seems to me, should have value. ![]() I think we don't learn early enough in life the true value of things. The child began reading favorite stories of magic to the river, believing the tales would be carried to someone in need. Storytelling Quotes, Stories, Storytellers, etc. ![]()
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