Friday, July 31, 2009

I look for the narrative in everything, religiously following the crumb trail to the gingerbread house, pausing where it asks me to. The difference between relying on logic and relying on narrative is that narrative accounts for emotional and psychic variables. Human variables. Give me the beginning of a story and I am pretty adept at predicting how it will end. Maybe everyone can do this, but most people don't study narrative the way I do. Most people don't live for stories. Most people don't make story structure their mantra, and narrative their religion.

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