Innate to humans is a capacity to create stories. When this arose is unknown. However, the capacity to take individuals, events, and emotions and like them together as a single thing, a “story” or ” narrative,” has become ubiquitous in human experience. Even when unconscious, our minds will create such stories out of dream experiences.Continue reading “Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Storying”
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The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Introduction
In “The Hounds of Tindalos,” Frank Belknap Long proposed a division in time between “curved time” and “angular time.” “Curved time” was the conventional sense of time that humans, and presumably other biological organisms, experience. “Angular time” is experienced by a non-biological form of life that allows for giant leaps across space-time, jumping centuries andContinue reading “The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Introduction”