The Storyteller (TV Series)

Fearnot (1987)

John Hurt: The Storyteller

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• The Storyteller : And so the boy who set forth to learn what fear was, learned it at home. And he married his sweetheart, with her name and all and never left again. Mr. McKay told me that story a long time ago when I was very young and I didn't know the half of it.

• Storyteller's Dog : [frightened of a spider]  Have ya killed it?

  The Storyteller : Yes.

  Storyteller's Dog : Promise?

  The Storyteller : Promise. I popped it between my fingers. Come and see. It's quite a mess. Blech!

  Storyteller's Dog : Good. Yuck! They're foul. they don't even know the meaning of the world bone.

  The Storyteller : What a noodle you are, frightened of a little thing.

  Storyteller's Dog : You're afraid of rats!

  The Storyteller : Everyone's frightened of rats. They're rattish. That's normal. Why? Have you seen a rat?

• The Storyteller : The second son of the second cousin of my second wife's second niece, who died, and left her husband, a tailor, two sons. The one good, the other good for nothing. And he was called Fearnot.