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new favorite PIE root just dropped. "story" is a shortened form of "history"! the root has meanings involving being a witness and giving testimony and traces back to "to see"! a story is an account of *something you saw*! also the shared root of "vision" and "wisdom"

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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· Jul 28

Replying to @visakanv

wow the etymology for "visa" is actually pretty wild, lots of stuff going on here

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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feels related to this narrator-as-camera stuff

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· Dec 22, 2021

the narrator-as-character is the link between reality and fiction, they're supposed to be what makes it possible for you to believe that the story really happened and a real person found out about it and is telling it to you now in the form of the book you're holding

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