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<DIV>In a message dated 4/29/2006 2:34:44 PM Central Standard Time,
majestic_cheese@yahoo.com writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>From:
SpringyStepps@aol.com<BR><BR>> To me, Joe rides a wavelength into the mind
that is<BR>> (thankfully) beyond any filmmaker's capacity to <BR>>
capture. <BR><BR>I agree, Karen, and I'll add that, even were Joe<BR>himself
to make the film version of one of his<BR>stories, right away it gets
compartmentalized into the<BR>four walls of the TV screen. We are
primarliy visual<BR>creatures, trained to take in what we see and assess<BR>it
as accurately as possible. Hearing a story makes<BR>it so much more open
to suggestion and interpretation,<BR>to fantasy and development by our own
imaginations.<BR><BR>I'm glad Joe's on radio. Joe is the storyteller,
but<BR>the stroy is a true interaction between storyteller<BR>and
listener.<BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>I'm glad Joe's on radio, too. I feel there is something, of
necessity, exterior about the visual experience; the aural experience
is much more interior, thus limitless. Sometimes his voice alone IS
the story. Just as an experiment, I have occasionally listened
to his programs from another room, not really catching the words
themselves, yet still taken to another place by the power and honesty of
that amazing voice. (If anyone on this site has ever caught his
voiceovers on Animal Planet's "Animal Rescues," he can infuse pulling a horse
from a creek with Biblical significance.)</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>