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11: 2d Progressions: Narrative Forms, Comics,Cartoons, Timelines, Calendars

The narrative form begins with the spoken word as retelling, story, myth, legend, epic and history. Words became symbol became picture. Whether spoken, written or rendered, any human representation becomes a translation of his belief. The story is likewise the transitory space between human thought and the inspiration to act upon memory interpretation and belief.

Storytelling and Fables

Storytelling, the Meaning of Life, and The Epic of Gilgamesh Arthur A. Brown

Aesop's Fables Online Collection

Native American Creation/Migration Stories

Penn State Library Subject Collections: The History of the Book

Narrated Fact

Google Search: Online News

Reference

Google Search: Reference: Encyclopedia

Online Contemporary Fiction
Mythica
- - - W A X W E B - - - D a v i d _ B l a i
Voice of the Shuttle:Technology of Writing Page

Berkeley Cognitive Sciences Conceptual Metaphor Home Page

Comics/Cartoons
About.com: A Cartooning Primer
NYTimes on the Web: Cartoons
Washington Post: 5 Decades of HerbLock

Interview with Scott McCloud, Author of
Understanding (and) Reinventing Comics. The Onion

Timelines

No. 1506: The First Mechanical Clocks
Internet Clocks, Counters, and Countdowns
Howstuffworks.com's "How a Digital Clock Works"
Chronologies,Dates, and Decades
NASA Timeline
Library of Congress' "This Day in History"
New York Times: On This Day - Archives
World World
PBS:People's Century
The WPA Thinktank Timeline:20th C.

Calendars

Calendars and their History
Several Calendars
The Chinese Calendar | Solar Terms and the Chinese Calendar Cycle
The Aztec Calendar

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