tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post1222750444450643286..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: The Earliest Beginnings of Storytelling by Rosalie WarrenKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-55278626154993550902016-08-04T17:28:06.078+01:002016-08-04T17:28:06.078+01:00Thank you Bill, Jan, Kathleen, Dennis and Sue. Lov...Thank you Bill, Jan, Kathleen, Dennis and Sue. Love the aboriginal girls and women having their own exclusive kind of storytelling, Kathleen. Rosalie Warrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10790708661647164052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-83072213475303346862016-08-04T12:10:57.842+01:002016-08-04T12:10:57.842+01:00A thought-provoking post - where do stories come f...A thought-provoking post - where do stories come from? I wonder when imagination as in fantasy starts to kick in? Of course these days stories come in so many different forms for children - word of mouth and books, but also film in all its forms, games, theatre (from Punch & Judy to a spectacular musical), even rides.<br />What a cute granddaughter you have!Sue Imgrundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16561248973128136601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-66344248654811325002016-08-04T12:06:24.445+01:002016-08-04T12:06:24.445+01:00Great post, Rosalie. Yes, Daisy is definitely tell...Great post, Rosalie. Yes, Daisy is definitely telling stories - and good ones too. When you think of it, it's almost our habitual mode of expression. I believe that the ability to tell stories is the distinguishing feature of the human species. We can't help it. We're always recounting our own experiences, to others, often tweaking reality slightly to put us in a better light than we may deserve. Then we listen for reactions: justifications - 'Yes, that happened to me too' - or condemnations - 'You must be daft.' Then we go away with the confidence of either knowing we're like other people and our experience isn't odd and bizarre or the elation of thinking that we are right and the rest of the world is wrong. Either way we win, which makes story-telling essential. And that's where we all start from.Dennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08003209263201885118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-32325713127932007532016-08-04T10:18:55.279+01:002016-08-04T10:18:55.279+01:00It's lovely Ros! I get so much pleasure out o...It's lovely Ros! I get so much pleasure out of my grandchildren, watching them play and seeing their imagination develop. Interestingly, apparently there's a particular kind of storytelling that only aboriginal women and girls can do. They draw stories in the sand with sticks and it's very different to the male form of aboriginal art. They have their own stories that men are forbidden to tell. Stories, it seems, pre-date language!Kathleen Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07645566938871914385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-56765068841600283522016-08-04T10:18:53.440+01:002016-08-04T10:18:53.440+01:00Lovely that. Ros. I used to have a car like Daisy&...Lovely that. Ros. I used to have a car like Daisy's, in some respects It often left me having to walk home...Jan Needlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15823078224282953782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-65360777826869919072016-08-04T09:00:56.084+01:002016-08-04T09:00:56.084+01:00A lovely post, Ros, which brings back so many memo...A lovely post, Ros, which brings back so many memories, especially of the inexhaustibility of children (and, nowadays, grandchildren), as they relive the same stories over and over again, creating worlds as real as the one they (and we) are in.Bill Kirtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16345949773423764808noreply@blogger.com