Like skilled fashion designers, we novelists clothe stories, as they change shape from day to day, in words suited to their figures. In principle a medium of cultural transmission, stories are highly variable when it comes to the mode of presentation they employ. Stories change form freely as they inhale the air of each new age. That is one of the things that gives a story its meaning. While each story is unique, it functions for the most part as something that can be shared and exchanged with others. The story has always been one of the most fundamental human concepts. ![]() Over the past 30 years, I have written fiction in various forms ranging from short stories to full-length novels. In his article Reality A and Reality B Murakami writes: ![]() In an article in the International Herald Tribune magazine, well known Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, author of the Windup Bird Chronicle and many other books, about how he believes that ‘realistic’ fiction is now incapable of capturing the present. This is another way of describing what Nassim Taleb named Black Swans, significant unexpected events, that change the course of events in unlikely ways. One of the problems with scenario planning is that it requires plausible scenarios, but that reality is behaves in ways that are implausible.
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