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Narrative
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The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)." By this, he means that we require a larger reading of the human past, of our relations with each other, the universe and God, a retelling of our older tales to encompass many truths and to let us grow with change.
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― Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
― Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
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To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.
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― Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
― Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
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