Comments on: Stories http://www.ewav.com/2005/07/12/stories/ We put the naked pontificating in clog dancing. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:31:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Scott http://www.ewav.com/2005/07/12/stories/#comment-12 Scott Sat, 16 Jul 2005 01:02:54 +0000 http://www.ewav.com/ncd/?p=20#comment-12 So I echo the words of people smarter than I without knowing it. One day I'd like to have an original thought. It's nice to have a good thought that countless others have had. It would be really cool to have one that no one else has ever had. Kind of like exploring an uncharted world would be. To be the first...that is simple grail. So I echo the words of people smarter than I without knowing it.

One day I’d like to have an original thought. It’s nice to have a good thought that countless others have had. It would be really cool to have one that no one else has ever had. Kind of like exploring an uncharted world would be.

To be the first…that is simple grail.

]]> By: msf http://www.ewav.com/2005/07/12/stories/#comment-9 msf Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:28:08 +0000 http://www.ewav.com/ncd/?p=20#comment-9 ". . . and so on first opening a book or looking into a manuscript I listen for the sound of a human voice. I think of all writing—whether cast in the form of the historical essay, the scientific treatise, or the minimalist poem—as an attmpt to tell a story. Some stories are more complicated or beautiful than others. Some stories are immortal; many are false or incoherent. Homer told a story and so did Einstein; so do General Motors and Donald Duck. But no matter how well or how poorly we manage the narrative, we are all engaged in the same enterprise, all of us caught up in the making of metaphors, all of us seeking evocations or representations of what we can recognize as appropriately human." - Lewis H. Lapham, 150th anniversary Harpers “. . . and so on first opening a book or looking into a manuscript I listen for the sound of a human voice. I think of all writing—whether cast in the form of the historical essay, the scientific treatise, or the minimalist poem—as an attmpt to tell a story. Some stories are more complicated or beautiful than others. Some stories are immortal; many are false or incoherent. Homer told a story and so did Einstein; so do General Motors and Donald Duck. But no matter how well or how poorly we manage the narrative, we are all engaged in the same enterprise, all of us caught up in the making of metaphors, all of us seeking evocations or representations of what we can recognize as appropriately human.”
- Lewis H. Lapham, 150th anniversary Harpers

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