[lit-ideas] Re: "Reading Lolita in Tehran" - "Why one should bother to re...
- From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:54:05 +0900
On 2004/04/29, at 12:42, John Wager wrote:
> I have
> come to realize that there is something essentially satisfying about
> stories, about plots, that discursive writing doesn't have. Telling a
> story, or listening to a story, gives structure to time, and that's
> what
> life really is: Time. It doesn't matter whether the story is "true" or
> "fiction," it's the telling and the listening that make stories so
> fascinating. "Non-fictional" narratives convey truths about external
> events, but "fictional" narratives convey truths about human
> imagination
> and human desires and human creativity that non-fictional narratives
> can't convey.
>
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Which is, of course, why the
philosopher/scientist is so wary of how seductive a good story can be.
John L. McCreery
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