On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:08:28 -0800, Joseph Littleshoes
 blethered:

>Tom wrote:
>> "Erwin Hessle"  wrote in message 
>> news:a3642adc-879a-45a7-b918-68fb59a06243@s36g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>> 
>>>You're using the word "narration" is a manner foreign to me, then. I
>>>wouldn't describe a painting as a "narration", for instance.
>> 
>> 
>> Narration is the telling of a tale.  That tale may be told in words or in 
>> any other combination of sensory representations, including painting, 
>> drawing, dancing, or any other medium in which feelings can be communicated.
>> 
>> I could call this "representation" but it loses the creative sense in which 
>> we fit our sensory impressions together to form a story.  A story is a 
>> representation of events using a specific structure, style, characters, and 
>> includes a sense of completeness.  The story we narrate in our brains is 
>> told in the first person voice and the primary audience is the story-teller 
>> himself or herself.  It's an autobiography.  It contains all the characters 
>> we have invented to account for the behavior of others.  There is, as the 
>> person asking about "one's true nature" suggests, a theme and a message 
>> being communicated.  It's also an interactive story in that the telling 
>> influences the events the audience subsequently experiences and those 
>> experiences are then added to the narrative.  The story-ness of our brain's 
>> representations of our experiences is what prompts me to call it a 
>> "narration".
>> 
>> 
>Fun with deconstruction? i disagree with you on several points but i 
>understand the futility of trying to "narrate" anything to you. Suffice 
>it to say you can get lost in the minutia, lose touch with the "big 
>picture" 

<nods> I agree with that. 

>and that to such a degree you mind is "overwhelmed utterly and 
>made a dessert by madness" in your case its probly covered in whipped 
>cream and has a cherry on top.

<g> I was going to suggest trifle. Which may or may not also be a bad
pun I suppose.

>
>"Tom" the after dinner mint of alt.magick :)

Not an After Eight, I hope? :-)


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