![]() ![]() And the more limited were the choices of phrase or behavior, the more complex the rules of language or custom were forced to become in order to master an ever-increasing variety of situations. ![]() Peated while harvesting coconuts or scavenging for wild roots, while hunting lions or buffalo, marrying in order to create new bonds of relationship outside the clan, or at the first moments of life, or at death. Modes of behavior, customs, and gestures too were what they were and none other, constantly re3 The number of words was limited, and, faced with the multiform world and its countless things, men defended themselves by inventing a finite number of sounds combined in various ways. This was the life of the tribe, a very complex set of rules on which every action and every situation had to be based. Dialogue was already in existence, and so were the rules that it was forced to follow. ![]() Men were already exchanging articulate sounds, referring to the practical needs of their daily lives. It all began with the first storyteller of the tribe. Lecture delivered in Turin and other Italian cities, November 1967. ![]()
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