Isaiah Shembe, "I am the beginning"

[the_grynne]

I became fascinated by the oral traditions of poetry and storytelling in my last couple of years of high school. While my friend so_spiffed was writing a ballad for our extension English course, I was researching Arabic poetry duels, Persian "aushek" (bards), the rituals that accompanied a storytelling session, and other details that turned out to be of

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[so_spiffed]

Way to make me sound like a complete slacker! ;D

Beautiful. I admire everyone who can write. *sigh*

[the_grynne]

Yeah, well, you were. ;P But at least you actually got something written, unlike me.

[so_spiffed]

Whenever hard work presents itself, I shall take the coast-y route! Work ethics are just so hard to develop and maintain. *G*

You wrote things...