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<blockquote data-quote="niklinna" data-source="post: 8657565" data-attributes="member: 71235">I'm not sure which thread to pursue this on, now! I think that geography and/or—as [USER=6696971]@Manbearcat[/USER] distinguished over there—topography, are natural ways to ground action. Are you familiar with the work of Lakoff and Johnson? All about metaphor and more abstract concepts being grounded in embodied spatial relationships.Yes, this is where the rubber meets the road. In some approaches, the road already has to be there, and somebody has to lay it down before the car can go along it. A car that laid asphalt ahead of it as it went, or a train that laid tracks, would be quite a marvel. Even somebody riding a horse or trekking on foot is only covering ground that already exists. I'm straining the metaphor, I know. But anyhow, to get to authority, you have one privileged participant who has defined some geography (and more) ahead of time (or maybe on the fly), revealing it to other participants, based on what they ask about.But we do have the (potential) power to create the very world as we go, in collaboration. The geography (and more) could still be created by one privileged participant, on the fly, or that authority could be shared. And as we've discovered, geography itself isn't even necessary for a story (although it's a damn fine staple ingredient, there are others).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="niklinna, post: 8657565, member: 71235"] I'm not sure which thread to pursue this on, now! I think that geography and/or—as [USER=6696971]@Manbearcat[/USER] distinguished over there—topography, are natural ways to ground action. Are you familiar with the work of Lakoff and Johnson? All about metaphor and more abstract concepts being grounded in embodied spatial relationships. Yes, this is where the rubber meets the road. In some approaches, the road already has to be there, and somebody has to lay it down before the car can go along it. A car that laid asphalt ahead of it as it went, or a train that laid tracks, would be quite a marvel. Even somebody riding a horse or trekking on foot is only covering ground that already exists. I'm straining the metaphor, I know. But anyhow, to get to authority, you have one privileged participant who has defined some geography (and more) ahead of time (or maybe on the fly), revealing it to other participants, based on what they ask about. But we do have the (potential) power to create the very world as we go, in collaboration. The geography (and more) could still be created by one privileged participant, on the fly, or that authority could be shared. And as we've discovered, geography itself isn't even necessary for a story (although it's a damn fine staple ingredient, there are others). [/QUOTE]

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