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H&NR p.223 histories gain part of their explanatory effect by their
success in making stories out of mere chronicles; and stories in turn are made out of chronicles by an operation
which I have... called "emplotment"... no given set of casually recorded historical events in themselves constitute
a story, the most that they offer to the historian are story elements. The events are made into a story
by the suppression or subordination of certain of them and the highlighting of others, by... alternative descriptive
strategies, and the like - in short, all of the techniques that we would normally expect to find in the emplotment of a novel
or play.
p.225 In the process of studying a given complex of events, he [the historian] begins to perceive the
possible story form that such events may figure.
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