Mar 17, 2010
No given set of casually recorded historical events can in itself constitute a story; the most it might offer 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 characterization, motific repetition, variation of tone and point of view, 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 a play.
-Hayden White
-Hayden White
Mar 10, 2010
Mar 3, 2010
[…] precisely when one says, “I am not a part,” one is most trapped by one’s identity, most paralyzed and most limited by the greater society, and that is a sign one has given up, given in; that one is precisely not in a condition of freedom – but of entrapment. Saying, “I am not a part” is very different from saying, “Because I am a part, I will not participate in that manner.” The first is delusion. The second is power.
Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany
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