A story is the record of how some imaginary person copes with life.
(No, don’t tell me that stories may very well concern actual people. Any person in a story is fabricated. Though I write of Charlemagne or Catherine the Great or my 11-year-old daughter, I am none of these people, for I cannot get inside their skins. No matter how faithfully I record their actions, my interpretation of their dreams and thoughts and motives, their inner worlds, must of necessity remain my own. This being the case, these characters are in truth as imaginary as if I had created them from whole cloth.)
So: A story is the record of how some imaginary person copes with life. It satisfies a need in us by the way it gives a sense of form and ...
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