One of five narratives that define American life. How is it we must always live inside a narrative?
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On the contrary to live inside real history is to live inside a tale whose end we do not know because we are still writing it. What is the benefit to living inside a pre-written narrative bylined by the New York Times?
"But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered ... Folk seem to have been just landed in them ... I expect they had lots of chances ... of turning back, only they didn't ... And if they had ... they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on."
"And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to."
"Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on. Don't the great tales never end?'
'No, they never end as tales,' said Frodo. 'But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended."
'No, they never end as tales,' said Frodo. 'But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended."
