Stories always meant moving and motioning.
Carvings and sculptures required us to move, non-metaphorically, on our legs in space, to hear and imagine all the stories, narrated by self or someone else.
And personal stories were hidden in all sorts of objects. Visiting and revisiting the objects meant retelling the stories to ourselves.
Books required us to sit. Eyes read and voices worked with the written letters and words. Stories would have to be heard often in our heads, silently.
Motion pictures move the images, stories and voices while we keep sitting. The stories fall into eyes and ears. They fall. We do not work as much to tell and retell the stories.
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