I first started capturing her storytelling using the video mode on our digital camera, around about April, but she soon refused to let me film her. So I tried writing her stories while she told them, using pen and paper. That lasted for only a few stories too, before she caught on. Since then, I've been recording her using a mini MP3 recorder, which is pretty unobtrusive, and transcribing the audio later. She then objected strongly to this as well... Nowadays I use a combo of MP3 and video to record her before transcribing. I only manage to record a fraction of the stories she tells. I always have a backlog of stories on the recorder that still need transcribing, as it's impossible for me to keep up with her. To help new readers, I've marked my favourite stories with a star (*), so at least you have somewhere to start if you don't know where to begin. Don't forget to check the older archives too - there are some gems in there as well!

Sunday 26 August 2007

The Story within the Story, Part 3 - 2007-08-10*

Still continuing the previous storytelling mode and instalments... two levels of dialogue: the first between Aladar and his friends, and the second the story that Aladar is telling/writing/reading


The New Adventures of Aladar!!!

“Yippee Ya Ya Yippee Yippee Yaa!”

“Daaad, I sing like that! Alright, I will sing something else!”

Then he went out, to find anybody to sing to him

THEN his buddy didn’t sing, THEN he singed long, long time ago at noon time at the pine trees

He was a king long, long ago

“To the king... at sea he knew nine,” he singed

“You know that?” said Aladar, “at noon time, he lived in the trees, long long ago. He was a king, that he singed,” said Aladar to heself

“AHH! ALADAR!!” said Aladar

His face looked... he was looking for his friend in the forest long time ago when he was king

He climb at the trees long, long ago also

But he was... long, long ago he was a king

“The king can’t find the leaf that got spines on it... can you work out that?”

“Good job!!!” They find the other leaf that got so many spines on it

“Can you worked out it?”

“Ya!” that looked for it... they looked for it

“You know already the pine tree that got lot of spines? Which one is it?”

“Good job!!! You find it!” “(Whispers) That’s the one!”

“Can you look at the other one? That not have spines on it? Can you work out it?”

“Yup! Which one is it?”

“Is this the one? Got so many spines? In it?”

“Good job!!!... You found it! Can you find the other one, got no spines on it? Can you work out it?”

“Yes! Yes we can!”

“Can you find it? Which is the one got no spines in it?..... Good job!!!! You found it! Can you find another one? There’s one left! Find another one...”

“Another one? Another what? Another what????” says, says Aladar, looking at a spell throughout the book, “there no leaves in it, not a pine book!”

“OH, ALRIGHT! He says it was a pine book,” says Aladar, looking at the book and turning the pages
“(shocked sound) look! Look, it got no words on it! No words... not either here, not either here!”

“ALADAR!...are you just pretending to read?”

“In here.... P!!!! Peach.... peach tree... it’s P... P?.... The nine tree of (inaudible whisper).... is it book about trees??? Everyday? And night time?.... At night time I saw a bat, flying through what they see... eating the fruit, from the trees.... and our house... yesterday, at night time”

“I came... THEN.. and a huge storm came, and BLOWED US AWAY from our house, then we got a iPod.... then, the storm hit the iPod, then it flew everything away... then we tried to get it again, but it flew in the rain off...”

“Now... then we GOT to get that while, even our iPod...”

“Won’t get iPod...”

“Then we... we give yours to burn mine?”

“Yes, I wanted to see something.... a video of myself, and flower game”

“Is it a flower game? Do I have a flower book? And a flower video? And a flower.... by the.... flower card game????”

“But I don’t have!... Then I kept, and I got a Car video, and I will put it on the flower show!”

And I put it on the flower show

And I put it, then he got put on, on the Car Show

He put it again there, then he walked away, then it was spoiled, then you can’t watch it anymore!!!

THEN a loud storm and and it get his video and his TV and his flowers... then they swimmed away

Then aNOTHER ONE came, the it was... house it was FLOODED in water

THEN deinosuchus came! Then the deinosuchus DESTROYED the book! And the TV and the video! And the SHOWS!

Then it’s SITTING HERE....

Then it’s getting away!

Then it get on his chin, then it get on his mouth

Then it get on your ears, then it get on your cheeks

Then it get on your eyes and your eyebrows and your, and your lips, and your tongue

And your shirt, and your iPod, and your fingers and your hands

And, and, and your pants and your shoes

And, and, and you handy thing that I don’t know and your FOOT!!!

And there was water all over the place

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