...so i've been told...
…editor’s note…this week I tried to trifle because I was too busy truffling with some troubles I couldn’t untangle in time to tango…in the time it takes to tour this taradiddle you could tried tacos or tipped a taxi but I thank you for thinking that trying any of this twaddle twas worth a tap, touch or twiddle…
“The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.”
-Carl Jung-
I could believe anything.
Absolutely anything. Positively anything. Almost anything. But not everything. Everything is unbelievable. Anything is endless and everything is finite but everything seems larger than anything. Everything feels heavy. The weight of the world. But anything is the world and all worlds and any world and even every world. Every is an answer and any is the question.
I could believe everything.
I could believe everything you tell me, and do as I’m told. I could tell others to believe everything I told them which was what you told me to. And if you were told to do that, we would be telling tales for the tellers, creating a long tale of telling that can never totally be told. The tales could be anything.
I could believe that.
I could believe that the tales we are telling are endless and pointless and limitless and unless you tell me that you never told me that, I’d be able to tell that you were telling the truth. Some things you can just tell. You can tell by the way they are, the way they were, the way they might, can or should be. You can tell that was how it was supposed to be.
I could believe that.
I could believe that I told you this, so you will tell others to come here and tell me something I haven’t been told yet. I could believe that something could be anything. And if I tell that same something to anyone then they would be someone who might believe anything.
I could believe that.
I could believe that anyone who tells me something might believe in anything, everything, or nothing and no one.
“Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”
-D. H. Lawrence-
I can tell others to do otherwise. But I can’t tell if all this telling was really a tale that needed to be told. We are told by tellers but can’t tell to tolders. The tolder you are the more tales you may have telled. Or so I’m told.
I can’t tell.
I can’t tell if everything I am told is worth telling. I can tell that if everything I told you thus far, brought you to this far, then you enjoy being told the things I tell. You can probably tell that I enjoy telling, and you might tell me to keep telling you the things I have been told. I have been told that is how telling works. Tell the tellers to keep telling. Tell everything and anything to anyone or everyone. Tell what you were told to tell to someone who can tell whether or not that thing you are telling them needs to be told.
I can tell.
I can tell I told too little here. I maybe even told nothing. I told nothing that needed to be telled. Because I am a teller. And if nothing needed to be told, then I have to tell that to someone.
You are someone.
You are someone who can tell others to tell what you were told. You can tell them that you were told nothing, and make sure they can tell that you told them everything by telling them that nothing was told to you the way I told you to tell them.
I am telling you.
I am telling you to tell me about everything you know about anything. Tell me about nothing. Tell me about nothing the way you were told. Tell me about nothing the way you were told before I told you everything I was told about nothing.
Tell me.
Tell me to quit telling you and to do as I am told. Told me how to tell. Told me everything you can tell me about telling and tolding. I can’t tell if you told me that before. I can never tell until you tell me. Tell me that you believe what I told you. Tell me to keep telling. Tell me the tale needs telling. Tell me that the tale is never too told to be telled.
Told me.
I’m going to tell how much I loved how you told it.