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Humans have been creating virtual realities since telling stories around campfires hundreds of millennia ago. I can become entraced in an oral story as well as
by peter303 8y ago
Humans have been creating virtual realities since telling stories around campfires hundreds of millennia ago. I can become entraced in an oral story as well as print novel or movie. Many cultures have had long oral books of myths or religion. The Greek Illiad and Hindu Bhagavad Gita Are examples.
- dorchadas 8y agoThis is something I would recommend to everyone. Try and find a master storyteller, and sit and listen to them tell a story. It's quite a different experience, but immensely rewarding in my opinion. It can show how literature doesn't necessarily have to be written, and is something that has existed, in oral form, likely since the first people capable of speech. It's actually a shame, in my opinion, that it's dying out. It coexisted with writing for quite a while, up to living memory of people in the West, I'd say.
- vinceguidry 8y agoOr read the Old Testament, or any of the Eastern scriptures. All those stories, with the possible exception of the Maccabees, were originally passed down orally, even after they got written down. The New Testament loses a lot, in my opinion, by being written almost purely for literary composition.