“Our stories, our books, our films are how we cope with the random trauma-inducing chaos of life as it plays.” Bruce Springsteen reflects on how stories help us make sense of the unknowable flux of experience around us.
Fragments
Fragment #1
“Every glance at a newspaper demonstrates that [experience] has reached a new low, that our picture, not only of the external world but of the moral world as well, overnight has undergone changes which were never thought possible.” Walter Benjamin, in 1936, stares fixedly into the heart of 2017.
Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller