there are stories without narratives in every newspaper in the country a hurricane swung inland and hit the coast of florida once there was a peaceful town called tallahassee and now its in ruins […] and as i see it a story is all about plot a story is the representation of a series of events and parts of events that result in a significant transformation its a logical form but a narrative is a representation of the confrontation of somebody who wants something with the threat and or promise of a transformation that he or she struggles to bring about or prevent or both these are two different cognitive modalities addressed to the problems posed to us by time because time is measured by change destabilizes all things especially human things temporary steady state systems who like to and change because we are all have to think of ourselves as stable in order to imagine ourselves as selves at all
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Antin, i never knew what time it was
David Antin, I never knew what time it was
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i never knew what time it was
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