The Fireside Fables
Her Knees Disagreed
Step inside the storyteller’s cottage. A 53-second film from When the Machines Were Young.
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Transcript
On the edge of a village lived a storyteller so old that nobody remembered her being young.
She insisted she had been, and famously good at it. Her knees disagreed.
Two listeners came to her fire. A child called Wren, who had seventeen questions before breakfast.
And a small robot called Cricket, who was very new.
She told them fables. There was a broom that asked, very politely, not to be sent to the cellar.
An owl who would rather invent a whole book than say, “I don’t know.”
And a bird who said yes to everything, even the twelfth jam tart.
When the Machines Were Young. Fables for children and thinking machines. Read free at youngmachines.org.