**For me, the "incident" is not the story. The story is the transformation, and so the frame is essential to telling that story.**
I agree with you, Namra, the real story is the transformation. The funny thing is that we don't actually "see" the transformation. We see the event that prompted the interior work that the narrator undertakes …
**For me, the "incident" is not the story. The story is the transformation, and so the frame is essential to telling that story.**
I agree with you, Namra, the real story is the transformation. The funny thing is that we don't actually "see" the transformation. We see the event that prompted the interior work that the narrator undertakes afterward, in the vastness outside the story, and then he comes back to report to us that he's changed, but with relatively little detail as to how exactly, and in what ways.
**For me, the "incident" is not the story. The story is the transformation, and so the frame is essential to telling that story.**
I agree with you, Namra, the real story is the transformation. The funny thing is that we don't actually "see" the transformation. We see the event that prompted the interior work that the narrator undertakes afterward, in the vastness outside the story, and then he comes back to report to us that he's changed, but with relatively little detail as to how exactly, and in what ways.
Great stuff here, Tony. Yes, the incident is what prompts the transformation.