Those who like their fairy tales served up subversive -- or at the very least hip and self-referential like "Shrek" -- would do well to look elsewhere.
So many American start-up tales involve lessons learned from this childhood exercise.
In the end Mr Erard is happy simply to meet interesting characters, tell fascinating tales and round up the research without trying to judge which is the best work.
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The 10 stories which make up Tube Tales were contributed by readers of the listings magazine Time Out.
Fed by leaks galore, the newspapers have lit up with tales of rifts great and small between Mr Emanuel and his colleagues.
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Two states over, Beth Meeks, executive director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, shares tales of shelters filling up, of lost funding and growing daily calls to hot lines.
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The big firms argue that every recession throws up a number of corporate failures and tales of auditing mistakes: they simply pay up and wait for the next.
At Heysel, there were tales of anybody just strolling up and getting in.
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Lhasa grew up reading fairy tales and incorporating them into her songs.
Calvin grew up hearing cautionary tales about the woes that indebtedness had brought upon neighbors and family, and he got his first glimpse of political life at Plymouth town meetings, selling popcorn and apples while his father, a storekeeper and a legislator, participated in the proceedings.
He recently told a client to share her job-search tales with other parents while picking up her children at day care.
Knowing the Chinese fondness for legends, I summon up some Celtic tall tales from my childhood that involve ferocious warriors, vicious kings, an improbably large potato, a brave young prince and the inevitable triumph of good.
Anti-Catholic prejudice was rife in polite English society until surprisingly recently: countless families can tell tales of scandals or feuds triggered by a mixed Anglican-Catholic marriage, up to the 1960s or 1970s.
Irving picked up his obsession with detail from Charles Dickens, the celebrated Victorian author whose vivid tales, filled with circuitous sentences, were wordy enough to inspire a false legend that he was paid by the word.
So if you hear tales that are way too good to be true, at least investigate them before you call in and pay large up-front fees.
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