Progress already made in understanding the nature and extent of iconic intention in Palaeolithic art -- i.e. the relative absence of fictive spatial/temporal nexusses of significant extent and hence of most narrativity in the usual sense; the relationship between figuration and its material substrate, etc. -- offers pointers for work in this direction.

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MARIGOLD: Should I tell them I know? DORA: Nah, let ’em squirm. Let’s go get some pie.

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