I wish more people read old old OLD stories to learn where so many come from.
Like Zadig, by Voltaire. It led to the evolution of the detective novel/story. It also features an adaptation of The Three Princes of Serendip, a story out of Serendippo/Ceylon/Sri Lanka 3 princes features nesting stories. A serendipitous (where the word serendipity comes from) adventure. It's a picaresque before the word picaresque (from the Spanish, Picario), but anyways. It's shared/in conversation and evolutionary storytelling in action.
Zadig is believed to have inspired Poe with The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
But origins of this train begin in Sri Lanka.
A story about just a wild zany fun adventure of three princes. And this old story features a great deal of detective work and analytical thinking from the pov of the princes.
You've probably seen the inverse in popular media/games.
A murder happens, one of three brothers is blamed. You're asked to sus out who did it. Only here, they're asked to defend themselves after being blamed for stealing a camel they've never seen however, they are able to make deductions about the camel based on context clues in their environment, each prince having noted different things to help clue them in to the specifics about said camel, and unifying their findings. --the princes are later spared as someone else finds the camel wandering in the desert.
Storytelling (its history and traditions) is neat as fuck when you study it.
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