i've written about stranger than fiction by chuck before, but found this quote to be especially relevant... recently.
"okay okay, so maybe we're headed down a road toward mindless, self-obsessed lives where every event is reduced to words and camera angles. Every moment imagined through the lens of a cinematographer. Every funny or sad remark scribbled down for sale at the first oppourtunity.
Where the story no longer follows as the result of an experience.
Now the experience happens in order to generate a story.
Sort of like when you suggest: "let's not, but say we did"….
…. One danger is, we might hurry through life, enduring event after event, in order to build or list of experiences. Our stock of stories. And out hunger for stories might reduce our awareness of the actual experience. In the way we shut down after watching too many action-adventure movies… and by doing that, never feeling an emotion of really participating."
and i guess... in a way... this.
"'where I was born,' georgia o'keeffe used to say, 'and where and how I lived is unimportant.'
She said, 'it is what I have done with where I have been that should be of any interest.'"
"okay okay, so maybe we're headed down a road toward mindless, self-obsessed lives where every event is reduced to words and camera angles. Every moment imagined through the lens of a cinematographer. Every funny or sad remark scribbled down for sale at the first oppourtunity.
Where the story no longer follows as the result of an experience.
Now the experience happens in order to generate a story.
Sort of like when you suggest: "let's not, but say we did"….
…. One danger is, we might hurry through life, enduring event after event, in order to build or list of experiences. Our stock of stories. And out hunger for stories might reduce our awareness of the actual experience. In the way we shut down after watching too many action-adventure movies… and by doing that, never feeling an emotion of really participating."
and i guess... in a way... this.
"'where I was born,' georgia o'keeffe used to say, 'and where and how I lived is unimportant.'
She said, 'it is what I have done with where I have been that should be of any interest.'"