Storytelling is an imaginative enterprise that precedes thinking of a close-knit type and prepares the way for it.
Storytelling is an art that is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that uncle george was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
Storytelling is an imaginative and inventive enterprise (like thought) but insofar as it does not aim at knowledge, belief about facts, or truths, it is marked off from thought even when it most resembles it.
Storytelling is evil in in its attempt to make the audience complicit in murder 'kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'i've killed this guy, now what''.