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Invitation, not coercion
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Invitation, not coercion

James P. Carse, from Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility: Storytellers do not convert their listeners; they do not move them into the territory of a superior truth. Ignoring the issue of truth and falsehood altogether, they offer only vision. Storytelling is therefore not
15 Nov 2015 3 min read
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