storytelling – Anne Z

Day 394 of 1000: The LImits of Explanation

I’m trying to explain using explanations why storytelling is better. Maybe I need to just tell stories.

Ideas from Arthur W. Frank’s The Wounded Storyteller, applied to the Amazon Prime television series Patriot, and to my life.

Walter Benjamin’s “dream bird” of boredom which “hatches the egg of experience.” What that means and how Byung-Chul Han reformulated the idea.

Last week, I underwent a major shift in my perspective on my life. This week, I hope to make some more sense of it, with philosophical study.

In storytelling, you create meaning in roundabout and inefficient ways. This is a new mode for me.

Considering tips from the editor of The NY Times Modern Love column for improving personal essays.