p.5 We dream in narrative, day-dream in narrative, remember, anticipate, hope, despair,
believe, doubt, plan, revise, criticize, construct, gossip, learn, hate and love by
narrative. In order really to live, we make up stories about ourselves and others, about
the personal as well as the social past and future.
This long, incomplete and obvious list... points to the narrative structure
of acts of mind
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