Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events…

Cormac McCarthy
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Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2013). The Border Trilogy, p.942, Pan Macmillan
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