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[cwgoes]

Thanks for writing this very nice post. A few of my reactions:

• Just as you say - there are infinite things to say and never enough words to finish saying - can it not be in this fashion that stories (just as blog posts) are finished in the writing, but not finished in the disclosing? Stories are not read in isolation but rather in a context of living, and are thus interwoven with the unfolding of being (and beings). The content of a story in-itself - the number of words in a book, the number of lines in a poem, the number of stanzas in a song - is in this sense finite, but in this sense the story is taken as an object, examined from without. If we consider instead the story as a relational narrative, always embedded in a shifting semantic context, are not the meanings it can take - and consequently the magnitude of its expression - as expansive as the bounds within which the context can shift, which are infinite since the context is being itself?
• What, then, is the difference between a story and a blog post, or a story and a sentence? Why connect sentences together into a story? In a sense, it does entail a sort of conclusory pull, as you say, insofar as the story - as an object - has a beginning and an end, and the in-between threads connect the two in a roughly unified geometry. One might say that the difference between a story and a set of unrelated sentence is in fact this connective tissue, whatever form it might take. If the only important aspect is the internality and for-itself of the process of production, why bother writing a story? To me, there is a kind of beauty which arises from threading parts together - whether in the form of a story threading sentences (themselves only forms of representation of the concepts or feelings being referred to), a musical piece threading together different motifs, parts, and instruments, or in the form of a painting depicting different figures in a scene - the parts are beautiful not only in-themselves but also in their participation in the whole, and the whole is beautiful not only in-itself but also in virtue of its intricacy and its unity. A set of unrelated sentences does not possess this sort of connectedness - and as the parts of Being itself are themselves connected, does not a more and more accurate depiction of Being (if that is what is desired, in part, in a story through its disclosure of Truth) require a more and more detailed exposition of the interconnectedness of the parts therein described? Could not a conclusory pull to describe at a certain level of granularity the interconnectedness of a certain set of related parts of Being - say, the life of a person, or the history of a group - be the natural consequence of seeking to truthfully describe such a set of parts, given their true depths of relation?

And a few unrelated notes:

• Have you tried feeding nuts and seeds to the birds?
• Can you fix Markdown formatting for comments, so my lists render correctly?