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The oldest technology humans ever built, still running on every brain you'll ever meet.
means An account of connected events, real or invented, told to inform, entertain, or make sense of the world.
from From Latin 'historia' (an inquiry, a narrative of past events), itself borrowed from Greek 'historia,' rooted in 'histōr' — a wise person, a knower, a judge. It reached English through Old French 'estorie' in the medieval period, and notably split from its sibling 'history': the same word forked, one branch keeping the weight of fact, the other free to roam into fiction and invention.
- basic plots
- Some scholars argue all fiction fits just seven shapes
- older than writing
- Oral tales predate the alphabet by tens of thousands of years
- brain hack
- Narrative syncs listeners' neural activity to the speaker's
- survival edge
- Stories let us learn from deaths we never died
- memory glue
- Facts stick up to 20 times better wrapped in plot
the odyssey — ancient greek epic poem by homer, ~8th century bc, follows odysseus's 10-year journey home
don quixote — 1605 spanish novel by miguel de cervantes, often called first modern novel
pride and prejudice — 1813 romance novel by jane austen featuring elizabeth bennet and mr. darcy