On the Big Island of Hawaii, my guide, Pii, recalled how petroglyphs told the stories of ancient Hawaiians, but I preferred his personal, modern island lore.
Not far away, guides from the Native Hawaiian Hospitality Association share personal and family lore on their walking tours to historic sites, some covered with concrete but not forgotten, revisiting a time when Waikiki was a royal retreat and surfers were the cultural heroes.
The intricacies of cyberwarfare and technologically advanced weaponry, used both by and against M.I.6, ultimately yield to a more primal form of competence that is, in effect, without content — the three Rs of killin' — which are underpinned by deep family lore, personal pain, and the weight of ancient history distilled into legend (with a hint of the role of religion added as a crucial thread).
Hulme suggests that all cultures have personal stories, experiences, lore.
If not from personal experience then from migrant lore, the garbage pickers all seem familiar with a large, white-brick compound in Changping county, just north of the city.
Along with all this lore, there are all the personal relationships within the story to go through, and go through them it does.
The lore of American thrift and personal finance going back to Benjamin Franklin is full of admirable tales of disciplined savers and investors who, over many years, turn pocket change and small bills into a comfortable nest egg.
In fact, it's one of my favorite bits of C.F.S. lore that debtors used to send personal thank-you notes to Bartmann's collectors along with their checks.
His knowledge of this arcane fact of my personal history floored me, but my memory of family lore placed the bed rest edict at four months.
Whether Hemon had Roth in mind or not, his piece of family lore, fanciful yet grounded in political actualities and personal hardship, seems to thumb its Bosnian nose at Roth's romantic Orientalism.
