Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.
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Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
I'll read anything by a guy who spent 40 years in a cave.
Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.
I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical reality - in stories about nature that are perpetuated in oral myths. That's how I got interested in it.
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.
When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.
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