"Charles de Lint - Moonheart" - читать интересную книгу автора (De Lint Charles)

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Chapter One

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SARA KENDELL once read somewhere that the tale of the world
is like a tree. The tale, she understood, did not so much mean
the niggling occurrences of daily life. Rather it encompassed
the grand stories that caused some change in the world and
were remembered in ensuing years as, if not histories, at least
folktales and myths. By such reasoning, Winston Churchill
could take his place in British folklore alongside the legendary
Robin Hood; Merlin Ambrosius had as much validity as Martin
Luther. The scope of their influence might differ, but they were
all a part of the same tale.

Though in later years she never could remember who had
written that analogy of tale to tree, the image stayed with her.
It was so easy to envision:

Sturdily rooted in the past, the tale's branches spread out
through the days to come. The many stories that make up its
substance unfold from bud to leaf to dry memory and back
again, event connecting event like the threadwork of a spider's
web, so that each creature of the world plays its part, understanding
only aspects of the overall narradve, and perceiving,
each with its particular talents, only glimpses of the Great
Mystery that underlies it all.

The stories on their own are many, too myriad to count,