Talk to G David Schwartz on the Fictionville blog
One day a young boy and his grandfather sat on the front
porch rocking and watching as the world goes by.
Suddenly three large flies fluttered in the boys face and
scurried away.
The moon looked down on them with a sighs smile. "Pesky flies,"
the boy said to his grandfather.
"You think these are something I once heard of a fly which was
so big that when it buzzed…
"… All of the towns' people had to cover their ears or else they would
go deft.
"Oh, grandpa,' the boy exclaimed, for he had not believed a
weird of his grandpas fantastic tales.
"But it is true," the older man told him."
"Was this fly a million miles high?"
"Not quite. But you can imagine the size of the frog that ate
this fly."
.. His tongue was very nearly across the ocean.
"Was the frog that ate the fly a million miles high?
"Not quite" the grandfather said.
"But you can imagine the size of true snake on the KUB desert
that gobbled up the frog.
One time the very same snake devoured one goes the king's
carnage while the king was on his way to a fancy dancing ball.
"This is the same snake that once drank the ocean dry. Why, the
only reason the ocean has any water in it at all is because it rains
somewhere else in the worked every day.
The boy then asked, "Was the snake the one who swallowed the frog
who swallowed the fly who was a million miles high?"
"Not quite." Grandfather replied.
"But you can imagine the size of the bird which consumed the
snake.
This bird was so huge that its head was always in a cloud.
Even when he bent down to his knees, you curiously could not see his
face, so high up in the air it was.
Lucky for him the snake was crawling on a four year journey
across the mountains.
The bird simply gobbled him up.
"Was the bird the one who ate the snake who grounded the frog
who ate the fly who flew a million miles high?
"Not quite." Grandfather answered
"But you can imagine the size of the elephant that sampled the
bird. The elephant was so large that wherever he stood he could see the
entree world.
"Why, everywhere the elephant stepped a new ocean was
created, and they were so lager that they were the size of his foot.
And every time he lighted his massive foot the villagers became very
terrified. They were horrified decease his shadow engulfed and covered
the entire world in darkness.
When he died, the villagers cut up his bones and sawed them
down into planks. They did this in order to rebuild the village where the
destroyed earth trampled and quacked as the elephant walked around.
"Was the elephant which stomped the bird, which ate the snake
which swallowed the frog which devoured the fly a million miles high?"
"Not quite." The grandfather told his grandson.
"But you can imagine the size of the monster that pounced on
the elephant."
'You can guess at the stature of the creature who attached
himself to the elephant.
"You can speculate as to the bulk of the beast that razed the
elephant.
'Grandfather," the boy asked, "was the monster who attached
the elephant who sampled on the bird, who deviated the snake who consumed
the frog why ate the fly why was a million miles high?"
"Not quite," said the grandfather with a gleam in his eye.
"He was normal size."