![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is the threefold folktale of how his prodigious appetite got them both into trouble. Here is the story of how she left him to return to her parents' village and here is the story of how he traveled there to recover her. Here, on the one hand, is the story of a woman, Paama, and her gluttonous husband Ansige. It is a smart way to begin, a nudge-wink apologetic for a novel that is defiantly awkward and untidy, and not in the least bit true to life. All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing. I am willing to admit to many faults but I will not burden myself with that one. Our narrator denies it and, in so doing, makes it so:Ī rival of mine once complained that my stories begin awkwardly and end untidily. ![]()
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