We dream in narrative, daydream in narrative, remember, anticipate, hope, despair, believe, doubt, plan, revise, criticize, construct, gossip, learn, hate and love by narrative.
Stories are not lived but told. Life has no beginnings, middles or ends: there are meetings, but the start of an affair belongs to the story we tell ourselves later, and there are partings, but final partings only in the story. There are hopes, plans, battles, and ideas, but only in retrospective stories are hopes unfulfilled, plans miscarried, battles decisive, and ideas seminal. Only in the story is it America which Columbus discovers, and only in the story is the kingdom lost for want of a nail… So it seems truer to say that narrative qualities are transferred from art to life. We could learn to tell stories of our lives from nursery rhymes, or from culture-myths if we had any, but it is from history and fiction that we learn how to tell and to understand complex stories, and how it is stories answer questions.
- Louis Mink, History and Fiction as Modes of Comprehension
u are filthier than filth from the dirtest of sewers,lower than the lowest of pondscum,n dregs like u n ur family,for who else can raise such a roach,should be incinerated n burnt off the face of this earth.ur whole family do noything but lower the overall worth of this country n this earth.
By: aeroster on February 23, 2012
at 10:08 pm
what brilliantly reasoned arguments you put forth. can’t argue with logic like that. stay classy.
(think about what your comment says about you, more than what your comment does about me. and when you insult my family, think about what it says about your upbringing and how your family raised you, more than what it says about my family.)
(also, your grammar and spelling are both horrible. go to school.)
By: blueballs on February 23, 2012
at 10:19 pm