A basic training for imagination is the listening to storytelling (narrative), in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to "evoke worlds".
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乡亲们听得那样的出神,我心里想,你们就当单天芳的评书听吧,反正有故事情节在里边。
Villagers heard that kind of trance, I said to myself, you will be when the single-day-fang's storytelling to listen to it, anyway, there is the story in it.