Our retired 'Parigots' [slang for Parisians] bring us useful tales of urban life, of alleged violence and marauding immigrants..."....
A good friend who had sailed around the world in the Merchant Marines used to tell us tales of adventure.
"Don't tell us tales about Jerusalem," he said.
Newspapers, ever keen to report on the property market, also brought us tales of gazumping and high interest rates.
As she tells them (and us) tales of the humans we have met and their journeys to this compound, she simplifies and glorifies them.
Olivia would begin to tell us tales of her frustrations with Charlie Ravioli, and, after telling us, again, that he was too busy to play, she would tell us what she had done instead.
The art that fills this handsome new museum promises to reveal what we already know: that images, even those arriving from the ends of the earth, can tell us tales we recognize from the universal human mind.
Grandpa also told us tales about a famine in the fourteenth century, when neighbors traded their children so they would not have to cook their own sons and daughters.
In April, during a Human Rights Watch research trip to Iraq, men told us tales of death threats, blackmail, midnight raids by masked men on private homes and abductions from the streets.
He told us tales of meeting Woody Guthrie, singing with Bob Dylan, and a Tall Tale about sneaking into folk singer Tim Hardin's house disguised as a house painter.
He told us tales about Flatbush and the candy stores where kids would get egg creams, seltzer and U-Bet syrup, and buy pinky balls for stickball.
