Writing - Can We Be Lovers and Not Have Sex
From http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/10/can-we-be-lovers-not-have-sex/
Showing posts with label Reflections. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Reflections - NY Cab Driver Story
Below what follows is a story, that has been circulating around the internet for some time. I read this story a few years ago, thought "that's nice" and then that was it. I mean, as a writer, it's altogether too easy to fall into a peculiar trap of disregarding everything you read. You understand the essence of story, the construction of fiction, and how it makes you and your audience feel. But to immediately disregard everything does something to the soul...it taints it, depresses it, shades it in greys.
So I try not to ask myself too much about whether something is 'real' or not, and just enjoy a good story for what it is. But then people attacked its legitimacy, people who are more cynical than me, and there's something inherrently desparaging about that. To say that someone is outright a liar. There's a difference between attacking and searching for truth, one is pursued for intrinsic gain, the other is an assault on intellectuality. So Kent Nerburn wrote a follow-up. Which I would like to archive here to think more on.
So I try not to ask myself too much about whether something is 'real' or not, and just enjoy a good story for what it is. But then people attacked its legitimacy, people who are more cynical than me, and there's something inherrently desparaging about that. To say that someone is outright a liar. There's a difference between attacking and searching for truth, one is pursued for intrinsic gain, the other is an assault on intellectuality. So Kent Nerburn wrote a follow-up. Which I would like to archive here to think more on.
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