Dr. Asta Mønsted

So just imagine being... Yes?

Tom, you are that person.

You have been chosen.

We like you so much.

That one person.

Yeah.

Wow.

But then if you manage to kill the whale, my gosh, you have food for months.

and blubber and bones and, yeah, baleen.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, definitely we have stories like that.

And we also need to remember that

Today, when I read bedtime stories for my kids, I have a book and I read out loud from this.

But in the stories, the settings of the stories, it's very social and sort of relational situation.

So you could be sitting around 40 people gathered together and then you have the great storyteller entering, being really good at remembering all of it and also being...

great with mimics and gestures and when to lower your voice and when to be really loud right so it was almost a show before we had tv but even through all of that entertaining it's also teaching us what to do what not to do oh look he did this stupid thing don't ever do that or he did this amazing thing so let's all aspire to work on our skills and stuff like that so

Definitely inspiring stories to keep people awake.

And we also have stories that were supposed to put people to sleep and be boring.

Different sort of functions for different stories.

Yes, there definitely is.