It's a tale of things half done, put off entirely, or in some cases made worse by what was done.
Tales of small things that start big wars imply that war is nonsense.
"There are so many other stories to tell: stories of growth, stories of change, stories of leapfrogging technology, stories of new opportunity, stories of new kinds of corruption and cautionary tales of how things could go horribly wrong".
Richard Ford called Mr. Plummer's book a tale of "doing things right.
"I shall not tell over the tale of the things there are to do, cooking and mending and washing and baby-tending," the author, Alice Austin White, wrote.
It is the tale of why things went so wrong at Rangers and why the club's many fans seemed paralysed by disbelief until it was too late.
This book plays the freak loop over and over again, regaling its readers with tales of (among other things) a Satanist with prosthetic horns surgically implanted into his head and a spiritual healer who has visions of cats and thinks of herself as a tree.
All this should take the unassuming but consistently funny Welshman to the much-deserved next level of his career, and bring a bigger audience to his stand-up, which is a melange of almost unbelievable but somehow horribly plausible tales of the peculiar things that have happened to him throughout his life.
Doing so allows them to draft a parallel history: there's the tale of the thing, and then the tale of how the thing ended up in an outhouse in Kansas.
Like António the hare-catcher, Saramago is "a great teller of tales about things he has either seen or invented, experienced or imagined," and possesses "the supreme art of being able to blur the frontiers between the two".
