Irving Finkel: belief

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…I mean, what can you say about the telling of stories in written form during that time? Do you think that, too, stretched back in time? I do. I think the fireside narrative matters. You know, when we were kids it would be twerps with a guitar sitting around a fire on holiday. But that mechanism, when people gather after dark when there is a fire and talk, is the sort of environment where narrative accounts flourish naturally among human beings. Stories, telling of stories. It doesn’t have to be pragmatic, it could be… …Literary in a way.…

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