Sublime

All the principles of storytelling combine into the art of dialogue. Dialogue should be changeful, it should want something, it should drip with personality and point of view, and it should operate on the two story levels – both conscious and subconscious.

The more you can relieve the other person of the need to defend themselves, the easier it becomes for them to take in what you are saying and to reflect on the complexity of their motivations.

good dialogue is forged in the furnace of opposition.

No matter how lavish a play’s production, how vivid a novel’s descriptions, how lush a film’s photography, character talk shapes the deepest complexities, ironies, and innerness of story.

Tout comme la conversation permet de faire naître des idées, elle donne l’occasion de les exprimer. Il existe une longue histoire de la conversation comme genre littéraire. Les grands essais d’Oscar Wilde sur l’art et l’anarchie comme L’Âme de l’homme sous le socialisme et Le Critique comme artiste sont des dialogues écrits, tout comme l’étaient le

In team learning, discussion is the necessary counterpart of dialogue. In a discussion, different views are presented and defended, and as explained earlier this may provide a useful analysis of the whole situation. In dialogue, different views are presented as a means toward discovering a new view. In a discussion, decisions are made.

The picture or image that this derivation suggests is of a stream of meaning flowing among and through us and between us. This will make possible a flow of meaning in the whole group, out of which may emerge some new understanding.