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Доброго времени суток.

Описывается предварительная защита магистерской диссертации:

The room was silent. Everyone stared across the pastries at me. The professor continued, reading directly from the document I had spent weeks, yes, but also a lifetime writing.

“Humans are storytelling creatures by nature.” No, he mocked. “Cultures ***use stories to make sense and create shared meaning***.” No, he said.

I spent the next hour fighting for storytelling, for its validity, for its role in our lives, in our work, in what it means to be human. That it is a phenomenon worth studying, a skill worth investing in. I posited that we tell stories to remember. We tell them to cooperate. We tell them to entertain. We tell stories to teach, to share, and to survive.

Спасибо.