--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: (snip) > For the bard, however, the request inspires another > kind of koan. The crowd has asked for a tale, and you > have many. Which is the appropriate one to tell tonight? > How will you manage to tell it in such a way as to > cause everyone in the audience to believe that it is > the first and only time you have ever told this tale? > > Because -- from the bard's side -- that is the magic > of telling stories. Every one is new. Even if you have > told it a thousand times before.
Unless, of course, you've told it a thousand times before to the same crowd (and they never asked for it in the first place).
