For next blog: What did you like (in terms of story telling and happy endings?) when you were six years old? Look at the Ephesian Tale for examples of naive storytelling.
Please dumb down blog entries--try to become naive.
A story starts with the storyteller--a fraud, sham, often will be a lie, albeit an interesting lie
"It was so and it was not so" Persian, the business of storytelling
Once upon a time--the Western beginning, taking you to a time of timelessness--no morals, no direct destination in history
In illo tempone--"in that time"--used to mark an undetermined time in the past--found in Gospel lectures
Two storytelling halves:
1.Kenosis: full (comedy, romance)
2. Plerosis: empty (tragedy, irony)
All good romances must have a happy ending
Close to the structural core of making up stuff: romance
Disregard your cynical thoughts and think thoughts of your 6 year old self: naive--sit in rapturous wonder and awe at whatever is happening
pg 125 Haroun and the Sea of Stories: "how many opposites are at war...childern of the light" story for the child and intellectual
Irony--the literature of people who want to stop talking, nonbeing (Samuel Beckett)
Comedy--brings isolated individual into the social system
pg 51 Secular Scripture: "the profoundest kind of literary experience...to question narrative logic"
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