teller of tales

Many an enchanter and a teller of tales did they discover who could think of many ways that a Voter Fraud might have happened, but by none of them had it been seen.

The week ahead will help us all learn where he is on that arc — as a threat to win the tournament or as a teller of tales.

“I became the one who would be like the ancient mariner, the teller of tales to anyone who would listen,” Richard wrote in “Of Time and Place.”

“It is also a carefully wrought one that somehow manages to retain the grace and delicacy of the world it mourns. Most important, it is a compulsively readable book. Siddons is a born teller of tales.”

Walter Benjamin, in his essay “The Storyteller,” famously argued that the teller of tales derives her authority from proximity to, a kind of friendliness with, death.