Conditions of a gift
Children’s tears speak of the conditions that attach to a gift
Script this
( from memory + http://reluk.ca/project/100-0/poll/c/pipe/100-5/norm.xht#sympathy-for-present-image
- narration reworked
- restated so that other wayscribes can more easily identify with it and adopt it
- plain
- without explanatory gloss of its own
- rather use it as a gloss on the story
- ending in tears
- for what the child was unable to express otherwise at the time
‘Margie was holding tightly to the string of her beautiful new balloon.
Suddenly, a gust of wind caught it. The wind carried it into a tree.
The balloon hit a branch and burst. Margie cried and cried.’
Script this
- citing source
- David E. Rumelhart, 1975. *Notes on a schema for stories.*
In *Representation and understanding*. Edited by Daniel G. Bobrow and Allan Collins.
Academic Press, New York. p. 211.
( https://books.google.ca/books?id=JImLBQAAQBAJ
( quoted by Hofstadter in *Gödel, Escher, Bach*, where I first read it, ∼1983
- with explanatory gloss
' One|I can understand the reason for her tears ...
- thus implicitly, vicariously explaining the remembrance too
- story does not go *separately* here under poet/ because:
- it needs to be inline with the gloss in order to work
- it must not be copied as a whole work
- rather only as a quote in a separate context (mine)
- else the copy would probably need permission
- it is not a way-motivational work outside of the context in which it's presented
- so does not belong as such (alone) here under poet/