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The Mystery Feast: Thoughts on Storytelling
We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or to hate, to see or be blind. Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and to hear silence, to name them, and the
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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
the story arts have become humanity’s prime source of inspiration, as it seeks to order chaos and gain insight into life.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Rather than add to our storehouse of learned information, these stories help us “unlearn” and break down the neurotic, mental-emotional patterns that protect our false sense of who we are. As we go beyond these boundaries, we may find ourselves in the province of wild nature. We discover an inner landscape, less controlled yet richer than that of o
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