{"id":2046,"date":"2013-05-29T14:35:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T14:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2013\/05\/29\/story-is-for-a-human-as-water-is-for-a\/"},"modified":"2013-05-29T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T14:35:57","slug":"story-is-for-a-human-as-water-is-for-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/05\/29\/story-is-for-a-human-as-water-is-for-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

(\u2026) story is for a human as water is for a fish\u2014all-encompassing and not quite palpable. While your body is always fixed at a particular point in space-time, your mind is always free to ramble in lands of make-believe. And it does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gottschall, Jonathan<\/strong>. The Storytelling Animal, How Stories Make Us Human.<\/em> New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. (via carvalhais<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(\u2026) story is for a human as water is for a fish\u2014all-encompassing and not quite palpable. While your body is always fixed at a particular point in space-time, your mind is always free to ramble in lands of make-believe. And it does. Gottschall, Jonathan. The Storytelling Animal, How Stories Make Us Human. 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