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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Once upon a time a cat drank a bottle of green ink. At once the cat turned green…. Thus is a story announced. Thus does it command attention no less firmly than the opening bars of a Beethoven piano sonata or the first sight of a new mountain peak. Thus does each story hold a promise a promise that as every storyteller knows will be tested. An audience that has swallowed the possibility of cats turning green does not easily forgive a poor story. ‘Story’ shares a common etymology with ‘history’-they both derive from a Greek group of words that include histos meaning ‘web’ histanai meaning ‘to stand’ and eidenai meaning ‘to know well. Storytelling is an art of weaving of constructing the product of intimate knowledge. It is a delicate process a process that can easily break down failing to live up to its promise disintegrating into mere text. This is why good storytellers and raconteurs have commanded power and esteem. Good stories are valuable; they can hardly be mass produced. Teachers orators and demagogues have long recog- nized their value-good stories entertain explain inspire educate and convince. Bad stories do not merely disappoint; they insult the intelligence of the audience they undermine communication and they can challenge the very possibility of sensical discourse. (LL)