''Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither
memory nor history. But man -let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling
animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not
an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He
has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's
a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a
fatal fall- or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the
story of his whole life.''
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