Yet the tale changed not just its dimensions, but its hue.
Pity they forgot that, in the story, Goldilocks was eventually chased away by the bears.After the markets fell back in July, the favourite tales changed: the recent talk has been of something nasty in the woodshed.
She revisits the stories of Cinderella, Scheherazade, Frankenstein and the turbulent life of its creator, Mary Shelley, thinking about how these tales change with each retelling – and what each version reveals about the storyteller.
Maybe it was the recession, but that tale has changed.
The tale has changed over the years, from Shaw's original and decidedly feminist original, "Pygmalion," to the crowd-pleasing Broadway hit that stirred the yet nonexistent fires of romance between the two protagonists.
(In spirit, the movie mirrors the low-budget adaptation of Grace Paley's urban tales "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute".) In the first episode Delia (Kyra Sedgwick) is a single mom whose freedom is her body and her uncomplicated sexuality.
Mr. Tsevma got a job as a driver and a fellow Ukrainian, Sergei Illarionov, arrived as the United Nations representative in Kunduz, bringing him news and tales of changes at home.
In a video advertising the movie on his Web site, he says that he got so many letters from people saying that the tale had changed their lives that he started yet another Web site, called Face Your Storm, on which they could tell their own stories.
This is a tale of change and transformation - one which necessarily involves a degree of pain and loss - out of which church communities are forging a different relationship to the bricks and mortar which traditionally lie at the heart of Christianity in Britain.
And it is a tale of change and movement which challenges historic notions of how migration works.
