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A story, almost by definition, is an exception. If you went through your day without incident and all institutions performed as expected, there would be nothing
by hliyan 12y ago
A story, almost by definition, is an exception. If you went through your day without incident and all institutions performed as expected, there would be nothing mention-worthy. Stories are anomalies. If a serial depicts its society as consisting of idiots, that would be open to criticism. But I'm not sure if works that revolve around a single event (or a set of related events) can be criticized the same way. I prefer to imagine that in the universe of such stories, for each such event, hundreds of days go by without incident.
- williamcotton 12y agoStories are not exceptional by their nature. There are plenty of daily routines and ceremonies carried out throughout the day that operate on an intrinsic and perhaps unconscious level. What you see as uncommon is an event that breaks the regularly scheduled narrative but there is more to storytelling than entertaining novel experiences. Stories are not anomalies. They guide us through almost every action we take. We are creatures of narrative and constantly hear, tell, act out and create stories, calling them either fact or fiction depending on the circumstance.