Does a theosophic approach ensure greatness in storytelling?
Is broadness the key?
Should one paint with a
Rolf Harris
sized brush?
1,039 pages long, it dealt with the life and death struggles of tens
of millions of people over several decades.
Yet it doesn't qualify, in part because of how grisly and
morbid the subject area is.
But mainly as it wasn't the greatest story ever told
...because it wasn't even a story.**
This proved fruitless as he had not read any fiction
for over forty years. Couldn't even understand why any
one did.
Then he started to get what great storytelling involves.
It has been told without alteration for over sixty years, to an
audience numbering in the billions.
It involves people from all walks of life, and of the highest
reputation, talking about something vitally important.
Encyclopedic entries for "Retweet" and "Follow" should mention
it as one of the earliest examples.
But again, sadly, fluoridation is not quite a great story.
It certainly qualifies in the fictional component, but is
altogether too one-sided.
More comparable to the words of Goebbels or Marx, it is
so utterly unscrupulous in its dishonesty
that Parents are Strongly Cautioned.
Mentally flipping through Time "Man of the Year" covers, the
author briefly imaged "The Greatest" in the world of sport.
Muhammad Ali's life was surely a great story. Maybe the greatest?
Humble beginnings, ups and downs and ultimately triumph (before
tragedy), old C.C. had fought through it all.
Alas, old flaws reappeared. Ali was real, not fiction;
the subject grim, not inspirational.
Allowed to visit the local Pacific National Exhibition on his own
for the first time, the writer found himself at the tent of The
World's Largest Man.
Incredibly one could see him sitting there, not five feet away.
He talked and moved like most people do, but he clearly was massive.
In fact, he had the rings to prove it. Silver and gold, each had
the diameter of a silver dollar. And could be bought for just 5
(or 10).
The erstwhile Earth tracker emptied his travel purse and secured
his relics. Wait 'til he showed his family!
Well, that proved to be less exciting than the advanced imagining
had suggested. In fact it became The Most Angriest he had ever
seen his father, as he transported both back to said PNE to
secure a reverse transaction.
So that was a story... And involved an -est... But wasn't the
EST.
Fortunately.
Maybe he was too close to the subject?
Well, that was easily remedied.
He could just poll a group of his friends.
The responses came quickly, and were not sparing in detail.
The most salient words said a new theory would be "simple",
"should compare itself to other theories", and perhaps touch
on real-world subjects like nuclear energy or perpetual motion.
But there was more. So much more, the interviewer promptly
regretted not having had a paper and pen handy at the outset.
There were two key things learned from this exercise. One was
their mention of the word "humbleness", a word very dear to this scribe.
The other was an ommission.
Neither of them ever mentioned storytelling.
Both had a love of stories. Even fiction. One was reading an ebook when interviewed. The other was
a recently published author, with auteuristic aspirations.
How could they not mention the importance of storytelling when
"The Greatest Story" writer
tEmP theories have fueled the faithful some 3,153,600,000 seconds
-- a photon/spring cascade 1052 consecutive bumps long.
Perhaps only the Federal Reserve could claim a more mendacious pretext***
to obtain money.
So far.
*** - 10% tithes, ironically religious themselves, not considered...
**** - Apparently Google does not even consider analectitions a word.
Analectics are
presented as a reasonable field, even if they are relatively
hit-less at just 797 Googles.
Hindi provided what might just be the greatest definition ever
-- suitably ending our story with the word's Hindi meaning: stunning!
Postscript:
Is there a moral to be gained from this bestseller-bound chronicle?
Yes.
PUT THE CON RIGHT UP FRONT.
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The Greatest Story
Recently someone published a physics book claiming to be "The Greatest Story
Ever Told...So Far", and that got Spring-And-Loop Theory to thinking.
What makes a story great?
"The Greatest Story Ever Told..." names each section after
a book of the bible, and begins each chapter with a biblical* extract.
Paint by numbers?
The story covers a vast subject with the broadest strokes.
In that case
"The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich" must surely be a great story.
Cue the clock
Growing desperate to understand at least the title of
"The Greatest Story Ever (etc.)", the author's mind raced
to think of other great stories.
The Fluoridation Story
Fluoridation is surely one of the greatest stories ever told.
Fields of fields
Perhaps the field chosen was important.
The World's Largest
Having reflected on current and relatively recent events, the
author landed on one of the more impactful -est stories of his youth.
Myopia
Clearly there were one or more things the author just didn't get.
Poll results?
Since "The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far" involved the subject
of physics, the poll question could be "What are your first
thoughts when presented with the subject of physics, and the
idea of a new and better theory (or model) of physics?"
In questions of science the authority of a thousand
is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
- Galileo Galilei
More poll thoughts
had placed it right in the title?
Fiction tends to become "fact" simply by
serial passage via the printed page.
- Anonymous
Then it hit home.
The Existing
Mainstream Physics
(tEmP) theories are the greatest story
ever told because they have conned the most, for the longest,
extracting the most, while providing the least.
The most, as there have never been more alive at once than today,
thus surmounting the past reach of Christianity's well-trodden storybook.
Ever Bold
tEmP theorists, the greatest of great
mythologists, did all this storytelling
while befuddling the greatest number
of analectitions**** the world has ever known.
- Lawrence Krauss, in a 2012 interview
** - "The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich" is historical; a
re-telling of events. Since events are innumerable, and without
end, there can never be a greatest historical text. Seems a bit
unfair, but rules are rules.
COASALT
Introduction
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The Atom
Quantum World
Neutrino
Black Holes Revisited
The Comedy Of Science
et=mc3
Comparing Physics Theories
Diffuse Interstellar Bands
Einstein's Ether Talk
No Strong Force
The Electron
Relativity
Unification
Assumptions
Modeling
The Greatest Story
Physics Quotes & Thoughts
Big Bang
Dark Matter/Dark Energy
Dogma
Forget The Fields
Math Sucks
Particle Physics
Peer Review
Standard Model
Star Gazing
String Theory
tEmP Theories/Theorists
The Control System
Trolls
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