Often, if an event is not recorded in the press, but only spread through word of mouth, the event can become highly exaggerated and inaccurate. Robert Ruark's Stories Grow Taller in Fresh Air explains the fact that exaggerating events is inevitable. It's a reason for people to find interest in the story and a need to know how it ends: "It's a shame to call it a lie. It's not, really. It's about taking a beautiful, honest fabric and embroidering a beautiful design on it." You can't do embroidery without first having the fabric. (Ruark 75) Every time a story is passed from one to another, the narrator takes the original story and adds something of his own. The smallest details might change, but each time the truth becomes a little more nuanced and further from reality. In the case of the Minoans, the myth of Theseus could have once been a reality, the telling of true events could have passed through this same process as