words carry ideas but hidden underneath are shadows. It is with these shadows that the saga masters of the story-telling tradition weaved myth into life, pulling an audience into trance and bringing them into the full immersion of their performances. Stories were not recited but performed anew each night as they drew from their poetic well of a right hemisphere language and a synesthetic body of feeling. Print literacy functions as a definition short-cut, like the control c and control v of a ke