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!

Thursday 4 October 2007

More story within the story, 2007-09-09

Shell story is in black, story within the story is in blue.


“Babyyyy…. Something’s in my eye.” There’s something in Aladar’s eye just now. Then, Luigi’s. Written by Horin Horsay. Illustrations by Aladar T. Watten.

Contents. Page Numbers. Page One, Without It. Page Two, With one Kim. Page Three. Without Aladar Maiasaura. Page 4. Without It. Page 5, Without the Man. Page 6, Without It. Page Seven, Without the Men. Page 8, Without Aladar. Page 9, With Pete. Page 10, Without Chin. Page 11, Need Your Help. Page bookmarked…

He’s always being bookmarked. Our books.

They bookmarked their books. For a second they heard a loud bang.

Chapter One. They heard a noise. They heard a strange noise, at their feet there was something moving their way… it was a apple. And the Apple said to the Compsognathus, he said, “I will just fly up there,” he said. “On your HEAD! Of course.”

HE LET OUT… he let out… what did he let out? …. Who who who, what did they let out?... Mm? What did they let out? No, this says that this is the one…

And they let out Pinz.

They let out Pinz for a while, and Pinz came in again, with a Nine bag, that glowed in the moon.. moon.. in the moonlight. He wanted them to be with his wife’s daughters, because she was very poor, she will be happy not in a second. But she was very old and deep, and very dark and very very enormous. And VERY.. bookmarked it.

She bookmarked the book.

But she wouldn’t be happy if she saw some dinosaurs passing by her house inside, that would be horrible.

She would be happy in a moment, and very poor and very wifey, but she will be happy in a minute, she will be happy.

THAT morning she was checking out some books for a while.

“Here I come!”

“Jump! 1 2 3 jump! Use your roller skates to jump over that high rock if there any. Jump over them, JUMP!... JUMP!!... JUMP!!!... JUMP!!!... JUMP!!!... JUMP!!!... JUMP!!!... JUMP!!!!... JUMP!!!!... JUMP!!!!...(sings) DOH RAY ME Fa so la ti.. (spoken) yuck.”

“JUMP!!! (Sings, ascending tone) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 17 18 19 TWENTYYYY! There will be!”

“DO!!! One to eleven, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 11, 12.” They were putting on some casts for a second when they wanted to be.

“They want to record you,” he said.

“WHY want to record me?”

“Because it’s them to record you. That’s why we are dumb people. That why we are bad people and just CUT off hair and pull your hair and tie your hair again, tie you hair again.”

That morning mommy said, “Can you tie my hair baby? It’s very long and very enormous. Then baby started brushing. And very enormous, for a second he see the top of the trees. He get some food for a while. Then get some enormous drink that he can reach. HE was reaching something, but don’t know what was it. (Laughs) It fall on his head. (Laughs and then through laughter) And then was banana on his head. So is very funny. Aladar laughed and laughed (still laughing), “That is very bananaish (guffaws, dissolves into laughter)”.

“What was that? What was it? What was poking me?” It was Snate, another dog was in there. .. Singing what a creature, singing what a creature. “(Walks away, singing) Creature is with the Nineown Hill, with the Nineown…”

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