To Tell A Story
He was a joyful one, that young Saul. When his daughter was but just a young little girl, he would tell her stories when it was bedtime. Sometimes he would read to her, depending on her want. She would either say, "That book daddy", pointing to one of a bookshelf full of children's books, or she would say, "Tell me a story daddy".
Saul wanted to tell really good stories to his daughter, but it seems that the more he tried to think up fascinating tales, the harder it would be to conjure. He could tell if he were doing a good job, or not, by looking at her expressions.
Saul knew that all good stories are based on true life, especially if it has been experienced by the teller. A good story teller can take the truth and bend it to make a good story better, and at that point it becomes fiction. It becomes a permissible lie of sorts, but we call those things stories. That's why in the south if you want to be polite, you tell someone they are telling a story, you don't tell them they are lying. But fictional writing has been around forever and it is very honorable to be a good story teller.
When truth is harder to believe than fiction, you know you have good story. The good news for that story teller and the listener/reader is that we can believe what we want to believe. The bad news for either one of them, listener/reader, is that faith in the truth becomes impossible. There are a lot of history books that proclaim to be true, and indeed aren't. There are a lot of fictional books that are indeed so true.
Saul wants to be a good story teller
Saul wanted to tell really good stories to his daughter, but it seems that the more he tried to think up fascinating tales, the harder it would be to conjure. He could tell if he were doing a good job, or not, by looking at her expressions.
Saul knew that all good stories are based on true life, especially if it has been experienced by the teller. A good story teller can take the truth and bend it to make a good story better, and at that point it becomes fiction. It becomes a permissible lie of sorts, but we call those things stories. That's why in the south if you want to be polite, you tell someone they are telling a story, you don't tell them they are lying. But fictional writing has been around forever and it is very honorable to be a good story teller.
When truth is harder to believe than fiction, you know you have good story. The good news for that story teller and the listener/reader is that we can believe what we want to believe. The bad news for either one of them, listener/reader, is that faith in the truth becomes impossible. There are a lot of history books that proclaim to be true, and indeed aren't. There are a lot of fictional books that are indeed so true.
Saul wants to be a good story teller
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