p.157 [David] Carr's strategy... something at least significantly "akin" to a narrative structure characterizes
all our dealings with the world
p.158 Carr argues that even in the most elementary perceptions and actions, an embryonic narrative-type
structure can be discerned, such a structure therefore being about as natural, humanly speaking, as anything can
be. There is a temporal horizon, he maintains, even to hearing a single note of a melody or a single tone
of a striking clock. The note or tone is heard as a member of a series, that is, with implicit backward reference
to what it succeeds and forward reference to what is expected to follow.
p.159 in order to perform a complex action expeditiously, we sometimes need to tell ourselves
a story about what we are doing - a consideration which suggests... that stories... are told in being lived.
p.163 [Carr] "what is essential to narration is not that it is a verbal act of telling, as such, but that
it embodies a certain point (or points) of view on a sequence of events"
