Story

Stories go in circles. They don´t go in straight lines. So it helps, if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories beween stories and finding your way through them is as easy – and as hard – as finding your way home.

The story I am about to relate, and to which I shall recur at intervals, arose out of one of these rambles; and thus I have been led to speak of them by way of preface.

The grandmother said she would tell the kids a story if they would keep quiet. When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic. She said once when she was a maiden lady she had been courted by a Mr. Edgar Atkins Teagarden from Jasper, Georgia. She said he was a very good-looking man and a gentleman and that he brought her a watermelon every Saturday afternoon with his initials cut in it, E. A. T. Well, one Saturday, she said, Mr. Teagarden brought the watermelon and there was nobody at home and he left it on the front porch and returned in his buggy to Jasper, but she never got the watermelon, she said, because a nigger boy ate it when he saw the initials, E.A.T.! This story tickled John Wesley´s funny bone and he giggled and giggled but June Star didn´t think it was any good. She said she wouldn´t marry a man that just brought her a watermelon on Saturday. The grandmother said she would have done well to marry Mr. Teagarden because he was a gentleman and had bought Coca-Cola stock when it first came out and that he died only a few years ago, a very wealthy man.

Tell me a story.

In this century, and moment, of mania,
Tell me a story.

Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.

The name of the story will be Time,
But you must not pronounce its name.

Tell me a story of deep delight.

i told someone a story about a fisherman.

he didn't catch anything, not onme thing, not once and not ever. his friends sat either side of him, filling baskets with trout and fresh seafood. his hook remained dangled in the water. he grew old there.

no-one had told him that he needed bait.