Tales

I just finished reading a chapter from Russ McDonald's The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare, where I found this quote from The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy. "For this world also which seems to us to sing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of lesser tales and yet these also are the selfsame tale and contain as well all else within them."