Storyteller

"Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around the campfire, fatigued with contending against the mammoth or the woolly rhinoceros, and only kept awake by suspense. What would happen next? The storyteller droned on, and as soon as the audience guessed what happened next, they either fell asleep or killed him."

E.M. Forster