Sunday, March 18, 2007

Drama and real life

"Perhaps the art of storytelling has led us to expect the wrong thing…all that is irrelevant has been conveniently removed. Life is so shapeless. Stories well-told make the real thing a continuous disappointment and saddle each of us with a secret feeling of inadequacy. Reality never coheres. Its narrative is either incoherent or it is a lie."
-Matthew Parris in Inca Cola

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