Amanda Jernigan on her attraction to stories like the Iliad.
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Friday 18 May 2012
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"These are what the poet Peter Sanger might call ‘civilizational’ stories: they gather in to themselves about as much as a story can hold about the experience of being human. Which is, of course, an exclusive and exclusionary experience -- so no one story can tell it all. Still, we construct these arcs, these myths. Their capacity is the capacity of human life: finite, but, to us, all there is."
Amanda Jernigan on her attraction to stories like the Iliad.
Amanda Jernigan on her attraction to stories like the Iliad.
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