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Furthermore, those manuscripts fully demonstrated that the Navajo creation story was not, strictly speaking, a single story anymore than the Bible is. It turns out to be a kind of boundless, sprawling narrative with a life of tits own, so to speak, fixed in its actual limits only by what might be recited during a particular performance. from telling to telling it could change depending upon the singer, the audience, the particular storytelling event, and a very complicated set of ceremonial conditions having to do with illness, departure, return, celebration, or any one of a number of other social occasions.

To retain much of the poetry inherent in good oral rendition I worked carefully with the syntax of individual sentences, patterning my prose to reflect the cadence of a well-told anecdote recited in English by someone like the elderly people I had interviewed in Crawford County. I also wanted it to reflect the importance of repetition in Navajo poetry, and I found that certain stylistic features like parallelism were easily transposed. That Page 18 seemed the best way to impart many of the features of Navajo designwith its characteristic tension,balance, and symmetrywithout creating any unseemly distortion of written English.

It was a possibility that I had never considered before. I was working then on my dissertationa detailed study of Renaissance poeticslooking primarily at Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poetry, a work that summarizes the literary theory of that period as well as any document written during the sixteenth century. For all that Sidney had said in behalf of printed literature, he admits that he had once found the lyrics of a particular ballad especially appealing:"I have never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet," he wrote.

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