Telling a Story

Story Telling.
 
A once-upon-a-time, a narrative, a knowing:

a telling (as opposed to showing) with a beginning,

middle, & ending— like this  here sentence.
 
Short story.  History: long narrative. explanation,

interpretation. time after time.
 
A word is not a story. A sentence is. We probably

should argue this  out: the difference between a WORD
and a  SENTENCE—and the  relationship.

That would be a story, a history: how a  word is

different from a sentence but how  they Just Get

Along.  It would be a story about opposition &

relationship  as well  as about parts and wholes and how

they get along. A good story. Extrapolate-able. Abduct-able.

Imagine a story about a story, or story about a story

about a story?  How many levels of story can

you handle? Track?

Ever start telling  a story to

someone  and wait a minute—
    digress a level and start

     telling   another
           [within the original

           but not on the  same

           level of importance-

           just to clarify, maybe
                   (or set up a

                     significant

                     prior  event)]
and then get back to where

you started from  
    [although it's not EXACTLY
     where you started from because
     it's had additional info added--
     (it's evolved, you could say:
                     grown)]
 
But anyway—be that as it may— you continue to tell

the story, hardly  even  aware (mindful) of the fact that

it has   “pushed down” and “popped up”  several “levels

of logical type” in a hierarchy which privileges your
  

               “MAIN STORY”

still evolving in time by looping  digressions and added

information that accrue (so to speak) as the story progresses

and in manners of speaking: the story calls up more and

more of   what it needs to Tell Itself, say. It mid-wives itself,

self-corrects, self -educes.   Auto-poetic, as it were.
 
Next time you're in Converse-Action, telling a story—watch

yourself tell it, if you can.  You probably can't.  This

kind of self-consciousness blocks the  performance unless

the performance is not the telling of the story but the

telling of the telling of the  story.
 
Retrospective, after the fact  self- consciousness kicks

back  in and looks for it's Patterns.  Makes them

up.
 
Which is not the same as telling the story. Unless one

could be telling a history about the Patterns of Telling

A Story.

Even then the actual telling and the patterns naturally

selected looking backwards are not the same at all. . .
 
WORD
       Sentence
                 story
 
What's the difference?
What's the relationship?