No Original

I chose to dissagree with the notion that there is no original. It has to do with my need to belive there were first people who first decided to tell a story. This person would be like Lyra. They would be sitting around in a cave or around a fire, and felt we need to explain what happened to day. Having said this somewhat arbiratry statement I also find comfort in knowing that these first people will never be known, and that we all have the same stories to tell and read, maybe in different orders and characters with different names. It is a collective comfort that we gain from reading the same stories over and over. They are like instruction manuals from those befor us and our stories will be manuals to those after us. That is why we "must tell them stories, they need to hear stories."