From: julie@pascal.org   
      
   On Sunday, June 8, 2014 7:02:03 AM UTC-6, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   > On 6/6/14 7:10 AM, mumble wrote:   
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   > > Is storytelling a talent one is born with, or is it a skill that can be   
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   > > Aside from autobiography, where do the stories come from?  Are they   
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   > > imagined up out of thin air?  Are they transformations of stories one   
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   > > has lived himself?  Other?   
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   > 	I think it's very clearly both. You're born with more or less inherent   
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   > talent in assembling concepts in ways that are conducive to   
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   > storytelling, but if you don't provide that talent with the tools and   
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   > knowledge needed to USE it, you won't be able to write much of anything.   
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   I think that in order to be sentient, to have even a *concept* of the   
   abstract, we've got to be storytellers and liars.  We have to be able to make   
   shit up.   
      
   -Julie   
      
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