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Narration
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Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it wouldn't be as important as it is. Great literature speaks to the deepest level of our humanity; it helps us better understand who we are. Narrative is not only the way we understand our personal and collective identities, it is the source of our ethics, our politics, and our religion. It is, as William James and Jerome Bruner assert, one of our two basic ways
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― Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
― Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
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The pride the duchess had felt seemed to leave her and become absorbed through the king’s eyes, where he picked it apart.
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― The Plight of Steel
― The Plight of Steel
