What are stories for?
The ancient Greek pathos means "what befalls one." In the traditional arc of Story that we learn as toddlers, something befalls someone—a character we’ve started to care about and identify with. Because we care—because it could be us—we turn the pages as the tension rises to its peak and then drops to its dénouement, literally “the …
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