When working with functional symbolisms within
children's, or general fantasy, narrative structures
there is often some benefit from details about the
artefacts.

Here's afew examples of what springs to mind at
the minute for me.

"...and in his hand was a huge old rusty key..."

"And everybody agreed his was the best, brightest
and most colourful plumage in the park."

"And now, she could scoop up a twig from the top
of the waves in just one, long elegant swoop..."

"...but she had the nicest whistle."

Whether this is in the form of adjectival labels and
intensifiers - with or without any corresponding
parametric or paralinguistic intensification such as
gesture or expression - or artefact characteristics;
and whether the delivery is written and fixed, or paroled
and flexible so as to incorporate dynamic question
and answer and other forms of game play or call-
response repertoire also seem relevant mainly to the
mechanics of the delivery.

As such, even where some kind of a list is called
for, just to couch the narrative-critical functions within
rather than one in which all the artefact attributes
somehow have some kind of bearing on eventual
or episodic conclusions, which again can be to some
extent formalised, I thought some of you might like
to play with the idea of a Magic Carpet having a
seem lengthways down the middle.

Particularly as the traditional season for storytelling
once more is creeping up...

Cross-posted to news:uk.culture.arts.writing and
news:alt.fiction.original from news:uk.culture.arts.storytelling

G DAEB
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, FCS 
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>Whether this is in the form of adjectival labels and
>intensifiers - with or without any corresponding
>parametric or paralinguistic intensification such as
>gesture or expression - or artefact characteristics;
>and whether the delivery is written and fixed, or paroled
>and flexible so as to incorporate dynamic question
>and answer and other forms of game play or call-
>response repertoire also seem relevant mainly to the
>mechanics of the delivery.

It's English, Jim. But not as we know it.

I'm going to spend the rest of today pretending that I haven't really 
stumbled across 'parametric or paralinguistic intensification'. I shall 
tell myself that I dreamed it.

-- 
James Follett. Novelist.

In article , james 
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>In message 
>, FCS 
> writes
>
>>Whether this is in the form of adjectival labels and
>>intensifiers - with or without any corresponding
>>parametric or paralinguistic intensification such as
>>gesture or expression - or artefact characteristics;
>>and whether the delivery is written and fixed, or paroled
>>and flexible so as to incorporate dynamic question
>>and answer and other forms of game play or call-
>>response repertoire also seem relevant mainly to the
>>mechanics of the delivery.
>
>It's English, Jim. But not as we know it.
>
>I'm going to spend the rest of today pretending that I haven't really 
>stumbled across 'parametric or paralinguistic intensification'. I shall 
>tell myself that I dreamed it.
>
But it is good to see some content in u.c.a.s



-- 
Peter