...and when it doesn't matter if there is a first telling of a story the re-creation is often more exciting than the original. why you ask? because some thought was given to it. spontaneous improvisation be it or calculated thought, or even meditated thought; in either direction the story becomes more real for the interpreter as is for the reader or original writer.
Who knows any more who's story is re-told, word song is the oldest story teller. Something new, bold and or courageous is often taken lightly, the thought floats on thin air until someone takes it seriously and re-tells it in a different even more interesting way. Everything exists in The Golden Eternity, an everlasting moment captured in time. Nothing and something have meaning. The original thought made sure of that. In the beginning there was nothing, but in that nothing was something and created itself to give meaning to the nothing for without it nothing had no meaning. It was the Great Spirit, and it thought of God and God created everything else, so doctrine says, but the only thing to ever create itself was the Great Spirit and it materialized itself from the nothing into the nothing and nothing had meaning because something had given it meaning from itself. It's a long story this document couldn't hold the words of the whole narrative, anyhow it's imaginative opinion and still open to dialogue and debate; but there is strength in the story and it is many times re-told in different ways and languages by many virtuous cultures.
There is more to reading than just the words. It is the words themselves that give meaning to thought. You can even read between the lines and improvise your own thoughts upon the page. What you get from the words is a clue as to a direction to lead your own thoughts. It's a natural experience. you think and then think about what you just thought. Of course we are of inteliigent mind and have active imaginations.
