tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640718734020131313.post4177552495903976637..comments2024-03-23T15:59:08.787-04:00Comments on The Fortnightly Kitti Carriker: Everyone Loves Stories -- Even Jesus, Even GodKitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640718734020131313.post-19410576070111940672020-07-17T10:50:58.538-04:002020-07-17T10:50:58.538-04:00Thanks Igor:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/07...Thanks Igor:<br />https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/07/18/iris-murdoch-existentialists-mystics-philosophy-literature-art<br />Kitti Carrikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640718734020131313.post-36767652510275824452020-05-28T14:57:07.132-04:002020-05-28T14:57:07.132-04:00Thanks Lorrie!
https://www.facebook.com/lorrieblu...Thanks Lorrie! <br />https://www.facebook.com/lorrieblum/posts/238316992954077Kitti Carrikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640718734020131313.post-1010988047928797262016-01-29T23:26:46.018-05:002016-01-29T23:26:46.018-05:00"Neither novels nor their readers benefit fro..."Neither novels nor their readers benefit from attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made - up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species." ~ John GreenKitti Carrikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640718734020131313.post-50676373012239610332015-07-01T11:18:04.410-04:002015-07-01T11:18:04.410-04:00“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even whe...“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.”<br /><br />― Jonathan Gottschall<br />_The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human_Kitti Carrikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640718734020131313.post-34635254566193827532012-08-09T00:15:02.131-04:002012-08-09T00:15:02.131-04:00Mumbi writes: "The 'Storytelling' pic...Mumbi writes: "The 'Storytelling' picture reminded me of my childhood when we would sit around a wood fire where a mother would be cooking supper so late in the evening and children would sit around telling stories as they waited for the food to cook. Those stories were so captivating that I wish I could hear them all over again...stories like...why an ant has such a thin waist line.Kitti Carrikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640718734020131313.post-61575210421413731052012-06-29T17:14:43.057-04:002012-06-29T17:14:43.057-04:00Kitti, Thank you for writing a post about the powe...Kitti, Thank you for writing a post about the power of story. I love all of your passages, but I especially like, "What is the truth of this interminable, sprawling story we all of us are? Or is it as absurd to ask about the truth of it as it is to ask about the truth of the wind howling through a crack under the door?" (305)Janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185023932135200374noreply@blogger.com