Postscript to #36

The following quotes seem to sum up my storytelling experience with Stringman. I observed that he has qualities that I would like to develop further in myself, so these excerpts lead me to believe that Stringman is a metaphor for me:

“Story represents a pathway to understanding that doesn’t run through the left side of the brain. We can see this yearning for self-knowledge through stories in many places—in the astonishingly popular “scrap booking” movement, where people assemble the artifacts of their daily lives into narratives to tell the world and maybe themselves, who they are and what they’re about, and in the surging popularity of genealogy as millions search the Web to piece together their family histories.

What these efforts reveal is a hunger for what stories can provide—a context enriched by emotion, a deeper understanding of how we fit in and why that truly matters.”

“The Western tradition . . . has excluded metaphor from the domain of reason,” writes prominent linguist George Lakoff. Metaphor is often considered ornamentation—the stuff of poets and frilly sorts, flowery words designed to perfume the ordinary or unpleasant. In fact, metaphor is central to reason—because as Lakoff writes, “Human thought processes are largely metaphorical.”
—A Whole New Mind, Dan Pink

“Everything you create is a representation of something else; in this sense, everything you create is enriched by metaphor.”
—Twyla Tharp