Saturday, May 19, 2012

Who cares?

… Can Science Explain Why We Tell Stories? : The New Yorker. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The interesting questions about stories, which have, as they say, excited the interests of readers for millennia, are not about what makes a taste for them “universal,” but what makes the good ones so different from the dull ones, and whether the good ones really make us better people, or just make us people who happen to have heard a good story. This is a case, as with women’s fashion, where the subtle, “surface” differences are actually the whole of the subject.

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