“We are at the very bottom, at the dark foundations—we are with the Mothers. Here are endless infernos, those hopeless Ossianic expanses, those lamentable Nibelungs. Here are the great incubators of stories, storyteller factories, misty kilns of fables and fairytales.”

Source: The Gift

2020s, 2020, February, Donald Trump Charleston, South Carolina Rally (February 28, 2020)

Yertle the Turtle (1958)
Source: Yertle the Turtle and Gertrude McFuzz

Epigram 14; translation from Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1906), edited by J. W. Mackail, p. 171
Epigrams

Section 1 : The Meaning of Life
Life and Destiny (1913)

On the Epic of Evolution in "Forum : Epic, Story, Narrative : A Cosmogen Dialogue" in Epic of Evolution Quarterly (Fall 1998) http://www.thegreatstory.org/EpicStoryNarrative.pdf, p. 12
Context: We do have something of a story here, a true story, that we can work with religiously should we elect to do so. … There are clearly all sorts of flavors right now, just as there were when … Christianity was being put together, which took centuries to get the core in place and has been under revision ever since. Let's keep talking!

The Rubaiyat (1120)

“The Same Story,” p. 63
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”