Story telling - surely that lives on forever?

So I just read a great post on Pretty Witter's blog - http://www.pettywitter.blogspot.com/- about story telling through the times, asking if we think that story telling will die out.

In my opinion story telling is an intrinsic part of being a human being. Telling stories about ourselves helps us contruct our identity, it is a way of understanding ourselves and passing on our experiences and values and so on to others. What do you think?

I really like this quote by Paul Ricoeur:

"Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence."
Paul Ricoeur

Stuck In A Book

Last night I was blog-hopping around reading what all you lovely people out there are posting and I came by a really cool blog, Stuck In A Book at www.stuck-in-a-book.blogspot.com. Simon who writes on Stuck In A Book writes some really cool posts with intersting stuff and I loved his pictures from Malvern in his latest post. Really lovely summer pictures. He does this list of 50 books that he thinks are really great but which too few people know. I for one didn't know many of the books so I started reading about them and got so inspired that I bought two of them straight away. So now I'm waiting for the nice mailman to deliver "Miss Hargreaves" by Frank Baker and "The Provincial Lady" by E.M. Delafield. Thanks for the recommendations Simon :-)