story escambia wendell on the in normandy and enormousness, a means for william blake to see a world in the grain of sand. we are born responding to the stories they think. there one way we organize the world's chaos and when we pass that information on from generation to generation. the best stories are living monuments, the memories that have to be preserved and they don't need any other justification. by training all the dickens my mother used to read me and by inclination and probably by deficiency i understand the world best true stories and because the engine of any story is human character, i spent most of my years not as a right here looking first of all not for subjects but for characters, a small town cop whom i first met because i was speeding. my wife met him later that same day for the same reason. [laughter] and he did not give her a ticket. is interested me. i soon discovered that he didn't usually give women tickets because he did not like to see women cry. [laughter] there was a pair of old men who were in a nursing home room, who were spending their time in the vest