“That’s what fictions is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.” – Tim O’brien

This is a bit of a sidetrack, but still somewhat relevant, I promise. I really like this definition of what a ‘story’ is. As adrian said in his lecture, there is no such thing as an ‘accident’ in a narrative, which would mean that every story ever created is technically what we can call ‘fiction’.

Regardless of whether or not stories do have ‘beginnings, middles and ends’, people think up stories to make a new truth, because their truth isn’t satisfying enough, or as a way of making explicit the fine prints of a current truth, or even to create a new truth that helps to conceal another (for good intentions or not).

Why does it matter if stories no longer have beginnings, middles and ends, as long as the grass is greener on the other side, people will find ways to communicate their ‘truths’.