TELLME A STORY (2#) -

Our ways of telling stories may have changed, but stories are still flourishing, Sam Leith contends in a somewhat longish essay. Constructing stories sometimes helps us make sense of the apparent chaos we experience in the world.

The Center for Future Storytelling is a sign of the times. The notion that the narrative arts are under threat from information overload, shrinking attention spans, text messaging, social networking sites and slam-bam CGI blockbusters is one widely given voice... Storytelling is a way of trying out situations imaginatively, of preserving knowledge and social value, of attesting to a commonality of experience.

And the search for meaning continues . . . [tgraph]

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# A Colorado police officer had
a possible Close Encounter of the
Third Kind, Linda Moulton Howe reports.

My common sense tells me he was human, but my gut feeling says - and you’ve got to remember that I’m an old cop (laughs) - my gut feeling says I spent twenty minutes talking to somebody who was not from this world.

It's an intriguing story at ::Earthfiles::

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