Well, howdy there internet people? It's Bow again. So tonight we are going to talk about

icebergs, Bernie Gats, and the Unsaid.

There's a theory in storytelling.

It has been around since storytelling. It has been around since storytelling first started, but it was Ernest

Hemingway who gave it a name. And he called it the iceberg theory, iceberg principle. The idea behind it, simply put, is that

you can delete or omit any detail, any event, anything out of a story, as long as you, the story

knows it's supposed to be there. As long as you know it's supposed to be there and you're conscious of that, the rest of the details, the rest of the action, will clue the reader or listener in and they'll fill in that gap, creates that subtext.

It's a theory I definitely believe in.

We talked about it when we were talking about Disney's icy princess.

Queen, I guess, Elsa.

You know, we did that video and in the comments section after I said what I saw.

So I just like, you know, I thought it was about somebody

who was neuroatypical.

Maybe, certainly can be. typical. Maybe.

Maybe.

Certainly can be.

There's also a theory called the death of the author.

And what that basically means is once the storyteller puts it out there for public consumption, their intentions,

their beliefs, what they planned, doesn't matter anymore. Only what's interpreted by the public is what matters.

That's why subtext at times can be a little dangerous.

Hemingway was a master of subtext.

And subtext is great because a lot of times there are things you just can't talk about.

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