My Crank Theory

  mattboggan   and others liked the line of Professor Flesch of Brandeis in the Times article about fiction and the brain:  ''It’s not that evolution gives us insight into fiction,” Mr. Flesch said, “but that fiction gives us insight into evolution.”

I like it too, and it gives me permission (or I take it so) to offer my own crank theory about the origins of fiction in human evolution.  I believe that the origins of narrative arose as nomadic early humans somewhere -- Africa, I guess, I'm not re...