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Story Lab
Ritual: As story told on multiple levels


4. Ritual: The story performed.
   Ritual as a story "place" manifested.
   Place as the reference of ritual's story.
   Ritual as a story told in on multiple levels,
     and interactions: word, action, objects,
     movements, sounds, sights, smells, and
     atmosphere.
   Ritual's stories as a place to heal, communicate origins,
     and belong [to].
   The Body of a story: the story we share, beg/middle/end.
   Biology in a place - an extrapolated metaphor.


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The Text

Doesn't this sort of mean that like multi-media things
they are more than "just words on a page" ??

But, still it *is* ritual -- to be acted out the same way 
each time. Of course we then get the "observer" effect 
when Thomas became a *part* of the story -- who is that
character hunched over holding a recorder/vid-cam?

Thus, there are sev poss aspects of the ritual:

  a) The un-chaning aspect of it; this would be the
     "cannonised" version -- litergy *not* to be
     messed with.

  b) The historical/evolving view. This would be
     appended version which can grow by appending
     details to the end -- but, again can not
     change the "cannon".

  c) Annotation (which is what we as "librarians"
     do; or are we "just" scholars in the infinite
     library?

  d) The corrected/adjusted/edited version. This 
     is what the Grimm brothers did.

  e) The "assembled" version. This is what happened
     to the old testament when the scholars began to
     "integrate" the various versions -- they did 
     little more than append one version behind its
     alternate version; eg, Chronicles and Kings, 
     the two versions of Creation.