Extraordinary Discourse 202
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Extraordinary Discourse 201
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Freelance Parlance We know that humankind has sat around its fires from time immemorial and told its tales and told them again, elaborating and refining, and we know that certain of these tales have become myth, epic, fable, Holy Writ. Now, because we have devoted so much ingenuity to the project, we have devised more ways to tell ourselves more stories, which means only that an ancient impulse is still so strong in us as to impel the invention of new means and occasions for telling and hearing to satisfy this appetite for narrative. At the most fundamental level, narrative is how we make sense of things - that is, our experience of ongoing life is a story we tell ourselves, more or less true, depending on circumstance. I believe this narrative is the essential mode of our being in the world, individually and collectively. Maintaining its integrity - maintaining a sense of the essentially provisional or hypothetical character of the story we tell ourselves - is, I will suggest,...
Extraordinary Discourse 200
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A Celebration of Fooling Around Why make a big deal of something because it is represented by a "round number"? Why not celebrate a triangular, tetrahedronal, or conic number? This is the 200th Extraordinary Discourse documentary, or, to be precise, the 200th segment of a thematic associational documentary, which is also a long train tracking from thousands of windows the landscapes of the last 30+ years of humanity's death-rebirth process. As we apprehend and attend the process of our initiation, we must come to terms with the necessity of Play, with the necessity of celebrating our bodies, with the necessity of Food and belly-laughs and Fooling Around and Doing Nothing. Jack Saturday