The Stuff of Story

The need to see a pattern

in a mysterious universe is as old as the human race.

Arnold Toynbee
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We tell ourselves stories

in order to live

Joan Didion
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In the beginning God

created heaven and earth.
The Bible
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The most beautiful experience

we can have is the mysterious.
Whoever does not know it 

and can no longer marvel,

is as good as dead.

Albert Einstein 
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by 
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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A. A. Milne

In the beginning, untold millions of wiggle-tailed thingies were ejaculated by my father 
into my mother's vagina to begin their    
immense journey swimming up the vast cavern 
of her uterus to begin their life-spawning assault
on a single egg that - for one brief
miraculous moment - managed   
to swim up my  mother's
uterus  to....   
But was it fun?