did that actually work because that is a surprisingly benign thing to come out of the Belmont's mouth and — what the fuck.]
...Yes. I've heard that's how it is in the old country. Europe is a place of history, stuck in its old ways, and so the Speakers there had little reason to adapt their own ways. Only oral stories, always.
[She blows on her fingers again, and when they wrap gently around his wrist, again they're cool without being painfully cold.]
Here we focus more on how to preserve the stories as living things. We retell them in words, but we also know them as dances, as songs, as theater. I could dance for you the story of the raven that stole the sun.
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did that actually work because that is a surprisingly benign thing to come out of the Belmont's mouth and — what the fuck.]
...Yes. I've heard that's how it is in the old country. Europe is a place of history, stuck in its old ways, and so the Speakers there had little reason to adapt their own ways. Only oral stories, always.
[She blows on her fingers again, and when they wrap gently around his wrist, again they're cool without being painfully cold.]
Here we focus more on how to preserve the stories as living things. We retell them in words, but we also know them as dances, as songs, as theater. I could dance for you the story of the raven that stole the sun.