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There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's something you have to work at. and one of the ways to work at it - perhaps the best - is storytelling: telling stories about yourself to others, telling stories about yourself to yourself, telling stories about others to others.

-Aleksandar Hemon

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There's A Social And Human Necessity For

Aleksandar Hemon

There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's something you have to work at. and one of the ways to work at it - perhaps the best - is storytelling: telling stories about yourself to others, telling stories about yourself to yourself, telling stories about others to others.

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There is a sort of myth of history that philosophers have.... history for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. when someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that history is being raped or murdered.

My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. and i practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "the iliad" and "the odyssey." i told those stories many, many times. and the way i would justify it to the head teacher if he came in or to any parents who complained was, look, i'm telling these great stories because they're part of our cultural heritage. i did believe that.

We walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. these are some of the high points. they lack continuity. i don't apologize. i merely pointed it out, adding with some truth, i feel, that most liaisons lack continuity. we find ourselves in odd places at various times, and for a brief span we link our lives to others and then, our time elapsed, we move apart. through a haze of pain occasionally, usually through a veil of memory that clings, then passes, sometimes as though we have never touched.

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, and deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, i'm at home and at ease on a track that i know not, and restless and lost on a road that i know.

[some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. so they have to be discouraged! then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .

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