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Storytelling Has A Narcotic Power.

In A Way I'm Almost More Rueful About The Notion Of Having A Non-ideological Labour Party Than I Am About The Personality Of Tony Blair.

To Say She Was My Girlfriend Was Absurd: No One The Wrong Side Of Thirty Has A Girlfriend… I Suppose I Ought To Have Realize It’s Ominous That Forty Thousand Years Of Human Language Had Failed To Produce A Word For Our Relationship.

First Comes An Idea. Then, Characters Begin To Evolve Out Of The Landscape Of That Idea. And Then, Finally, Characters Dominate: Plot Is Simply A Function Of What These People Might Do Or Be. Everything Has To Flow From Their Personalities; Otherwise It Will Not Be Emotionally Engaging, Or Plausible.

What Is Leadership, After All, But The Blind Choice Of One Route Over Another And The Confident Pretense That The Decision Was Based On Reason