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| He peeped! |
A man pulls an arrow out of an
injured crane’s wing.
A woman appears at his house
and begins living with him.
They are poor, the woman
asks the man to make a loom.
She closes the door, saying,
“Don’t look while I am working.”
She produces cloth, the man
sells it, they become wealthy.
One day the man peeps in the
room.
He sees a crane making cloth
with feathers.
She sees him looking, and
says, “You have seen my true form, I cannot stay here,” and flies away.
__________
Voice-over
Sometimes, there isn’t time
to tell a story slowly. Fidgeting starts. Give yourself one minute and deliver
in the present tense. Jump cuts. No transitions. No diversions. Pure plot.
Old stories were often used for
instructing.
They were a vehicle for a
precept: a rule, command, order.
Or, more subtly, a moral: a message,
meaning, point.
Interpretations for The Crane may vary:
Don’t look a gift horse in
the mouth?
In a modern context, Respect
privacy?
“Privacy and security are
those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.”
Margaret Cho.
Or as Marshall McLuhan viewed it: “Publication is a self-invasion of
privacy.”
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