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1 timestamped hit 1 source reading 1 extracted note Newest source: 2025-11-12, day precision Aliases: stories-are-living-thing, thing, things

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Stories are living things

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...texts are sayings or truisms but these are stories and stories are living things that we can reconstruct in our heads okay and again..."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...texts are sayings or truisms but these are stories and stories are living things that we can reconstruct in our heads okay and again..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination (2025-11-12, day precision).

Most connected source reading: The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination.

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Stories are living things

Glossary

Jiang's model of narrative as something readers can reconstruct and reinterpret, unlike closed sayings.

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