Norm Macdonald's story about the first time he met Bob Dylan

Re:Norm Macdonald's story about the first time he met Bob Dylan by sellyme on Sunday October 10, 2021 @11:59PM (#28824506)

The trick for that is to realise that what actually happened millennia ago isn't really too important most of the time, and that yarns and fables reveal extremely important cultural information beyond what could be gleaned from a dry factual account.

Hell, even in the modern era there's loads of things that absolutely unequivocally did not happen, and everyone understands and agrees with that, yet collectively goes "but it's better if we pretend it did though".

There's some old adage about truth and good stories...

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Re:Norm Macdonald's story about the first time he met Bob Dylan by DiggyJohnson on Monday October 11, 2021 @11:03AM (#28829113)

I’m actually writing a book about this in the context of MMORPGs and the generation of “real” story and narrative. Can I reproduce this comment, it’s just too on the money to ignore.

I know this is a weird question, but I’ve been having fun playing around with the idea of exposing the workflow and research behind the book as opposed to restating context from others (and limiting my area of generation to the novel arguments.)

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Re:Norm Macdonald's story about the first time he met Bob Dylan by bananabiscuit on Monday October 11, 2021 @12:49PM (#28830296)

I’d read that book. Can a sign up for news on its release somewhere?

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Re:Norm Macdonald's story about the first time he met Bob Dylan by sellyme on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @10:59AM (#28852997)

> Can I reproduce this comment

Sure.

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