The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Story time

The formal quality of experience through time is inherently narrative.
Stephen Crites, "The Narrative Quality of Experience," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 

 Story is a basic principle of mind. Most of our experience, our knowledge, and our thinking is organized as stories... Narrative imagining is our fundamental form of predicting [and our] fundamental cognitive instrument for explanation.
Mark Turner, The Literary Mind
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