Word: teller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...church with a sign in front of it that read. "Tired of sin? Come in!" Then you told us that some sneaky Harvard faculty member painted the following line baneath it. "If not, go to work for the Nixon administration." I'll never be as good a story-teller as you, but I hope I didn't week up your joke too much...
...mechanics of narration, the conundrums of time and the intertwining trinity of tenses, the vexing headaches of omniscience-all these familiar aesthetic matters are considered and worked out on the page. More than usual, though, Transparent Things delivers the teller along with the tale...
Flaunted Wealth. The son of a poor preacher, Cambronne was a bank teller before he met Papa Doc in 1957, the year that Duvalier came to power. At first Cambronne was little more than a messenger for the cruel dictator. But within two years he was one of his favorite aides. Cambronne helped establish his credentials by setting up the National Renovation Movement, which was essentially a front for extortion. Funds would be collected from businessmen ostensibly to rebuild a slum or pave a road, but most of the money would end up in the pockets of Duvalier...
...Barth the legend is a natural, the storyteller is dramatic hero weaving tales to stretch out her life. More and more in the last several years. Barth has come to identify the modern novelist's predicament with Scheherezade's--the teller of tales on the verge of extinction, forced to dazzling heights of ingenuity to trick out one more lifesaving fable. Barth has begun to conceive of the act of storytelling as one of the most fun damental of human actions, and there is a passage in Dinyazadiad where he dwells for some time on similarities between the rise...
...eclectic, and it had the fuzzy continuity of a fever dream-rather like the early Marx Brothers movies, or the last films of W.C. Fields. It also had a fine eye for the human cartoon. Allen, playing the master criminal of his youthful fantasies, stands by while a bank teller tries to decipher his scrawl: "I have a gub." The holdup man insists that the word is "gun"; the teller consults higher authorities, thereby spiking the heist. Even Allen's penmanship, it turns out, is masochistic. Occasionally there was a flat, tasteless line, but audiences howled, and the film...