The art of story-telling has not been declining from the beginning. It has been declining for only about twelve thousand years. One reason for the de… - R. A. Lafferty

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The art of story-telling has not been declining from the beginning. It has been declining for only about twelve thousand years. One reason for the decline is a dietary deficiency: the scarcity of Wooly Rhinoceros Meat and of Dire Wolf Meat. And the other reason is the disappearance of good places where good stories may be told.