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THE USES OF STORY
TWO POSSIBLY SURPRISING EXAMPLES
MARRIAGE
MEDICINE
THE ART OF LYING
T. C. Boyle
Q: Have you ever told a lie that gets as big and as potentially disastrous as the one Lonnie tells in the book? !
A: "I make my living telling lies. Everything I do is a lie. It's an artistic lie, a story, an invention. That's how I live. The reason that we make art and love art is because the real world is out of control, utterly random and there's absolutely no purpose to human life. So what we do is we create our own scenario in our own world. When asked this question about why my characters suffer so much, it's because I'm the god of my own world and by god they're going to suffer! That's my pleasure."
––T. C. Boyle
TWO STORIES
MINE“Jimmy and the Vanishing Cream”
YOURS “Strangers on a Plane”
TWO MORE STORIES
MINE“Mark Twain, My Mother Is Eternally Grateful”
YOURS“How I Came Here and Why I Stayed”
9 REASONS WHY WE NEED STORIES
1. WE DELIGHT IN STORIES.
2. STORIES CREATE COMMUNITY.
3. STORIES HELP US SEE THROUGH THE EYES OF OTHER PEOPLE.
4. STORIES HELP US SEE THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR ACTIONS.
5. STORIES EDUCATE OUR DESIRES.
6. STORIES HELP US DWELL IN PLACE.
7. STORIES HELP US DWELL IN TIME.
8. STORIES HELP US DEAL WITH SUFFERING LOSS AND DEATH.
9. STORIES TEACH US HOW TO BE HUMAN.
LASTLY, HOW TO MAKE SHAPELY STORIES
STORY VERSUS PLOT
CAUSE AND EFFECT
HOW AND WHY
STORIES ARE INEVITABLE IN RETROSPECT
INFORMATION
DATA
TRUTH
INSIGHT
"Movies are real life with the boring parts cut out."
––Alfred Hitchcock
THE END