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I don't think we like the same kinds of stories, him and I. He paints a very simple idea of the story. Like every story that resonates with us is the 3 little bears. The Homeric tails, while "simple" in terms of a hero's tail, the motivations, situations and characters are so rich and unpredictable at times it kind of ruins the whole talk on stories making little of ourselves. I enjoy this talk, mind you, but it is ironic to me that I think this story is an overly simplistic narrative on...well, the narrative! Les Misérables or The Count of Monte Cristo are rich, dynamic, and full of the complexities of the human tradition. Hell, the Bible is full of twists and turns that one might not expect...They killed the savior in the end, NO WAY! And even more so, the bibles have a very human feel to them in the OT, people fail and don't perform the way "God intended". And it is true that most narratives have some sort of objective guiding them, and the state of real life is much less formally constructed. With that said, though, even though the overall situation of humanity is like orchestrated chaos, they are still trying to carve out the meaningful story for their own life.