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July 11, 2004

Falconer's pre-epiphany

Timothy Falconer — who has been working on ways to knit people, pictures and words together for a while now — blogs an edge-of-an-epiphany idea that somehow we, collectively, are going to invent new ways to tell stories.

Here's what I know so far: there will be a new art form, a new way to tell our stories, a new way to entertain and enlighten each other. Its defining characteristic will be interconnectedness. It won't be sequential, but it won't be haphazard. It won't be some kind of "you choose the ending" lame-o branching crap either. It'll be engaging, involving . . . geniunely creative.

I wonder about the sequential part. The narrative form has been persistent. Even if you tell the story backwards, as in Memento or Betrayal, the story unfolds forwards, so to speak. Ultimnately, narrative shows how the end was contained all the time in the beginning, which is why "you choose the ending" is lame-o. So, how much room is there for change? How deep can it go in the newly connected world? I dunno. I guess, as Timothy says, we get to invent it...

Posted by D. Weinberger at July 11, 2004 09:19 AM


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