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Monday, 29 December 2025

OUR NEED OF STORIES

'We all need narratives to make sense of the world.'
Daniel Mendelsohn, An Odyssey, p.290.

Posted by Ed Shaw at 11:21

Labels: Daniel Mendelsohn, HUMANKIND, STORIES

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