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Posts tagged storytelling

The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.

Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (via sacred-rebellion)

Kurt Vonnegut’s story shapes drawn into Google Correlate

austinkleon:

Taking a cue from Kottke, I plugged Vonnegut’s story shapes into Google Correlate using the drawing feature, and here’s what I got:
“person who is leading a bearable life, who experiences misfortune, who overcomes misfortune, and who is happier afterward for having demonstrated resourcefulness and strength” = hemorrhoids
boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back again = yellow pages cleveland
creation myth = art blog
Old Testament creation myth = ultimate guitar tabs
Kafka’s metamorphosis = fruit machines
Cinderella story = Max & Erma’s