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Freed From Behind The Paywall: What is a Story – and What is it For?

How Story Saves Us From Chaos - An Extended Post

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Sep 04, 2025
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First published as a paid post December 2022.

'A story is like a magnet dragged through randomness pulling the chaos of things into some kind of shape and - if we're lucky - into some kind of sense. Every tale is an attempt to lasso a terrifying reality and bring it to heel' -  John Yorke.

Stories are the sea in which humans swim. A written, acted or film…

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