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Episode 21: Story as Living Matter

Episode 21: Story as Living Matter

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“I think an instinct for selection goes with the art of storytelling… There is…[this] very personal relationship that exists between all storytellers and the stories they tell...I am firmly convinced that certain storytellers are allergic to specific stories...Herein lies a part of the storyteller’s integrity, to be honestly aware of this and say: This story is not mine...This intimate relationship between story and teller must be reckoned with.” - Ruth Sawyer, The Way of the Storyteller, p. 151-152. It is as if we are strangely compelled to tell some stories while other tales strongly repel us - and we pay dearly if we tell the ones we should not. There are curious metaphysics at work here. I recall an evening in Flagstaff, Arizona - telling a sacred story in order to impress. Afterwards, there was a sickly feeling - deep in the gut. A sense of the wrongness of the motive. A dishonoring of the tale. Another time, in performance as a professional storyteller, stories were tol
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