I've wondered before about what the word reconteur meant; I now know that it is french for "storyteller".
And speaking of storytellers, Mr. Sexson told us today about Schaherazaade(sp)of the Airways, which was greatly provocative as only real incidents can be(which begs the question of what is real in the first place, but nevermind). Not only did this incident fit in with discussion of Plato's Symposium(a story within a story within a series of stories)but this woman also touched upon the boundary between what is "truth" and what is fiction, or --to badly paraphrase Aristotle's categorization of history and poetry--truth with a small "t" and truth with a capital "T". This woman's actions actaully seem vaguely apocalyptic(in the Biblical sense), since revealing something that was hidden was what she did. This action she took seems to me like that of a vaguely capricious, yet ultimately honest deity seeking to bestow something on mortals. Or something like that.