“…experience has fallen in value…in every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers…counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”*
“It is not the object of the story to convey a happening per se, which is the purpose of information; rather it embeds it in the life of the storyteller in order to pass it on as experience to those listening. It thus bears the marks of the storyteller much as the earthen vessel bears the marks of the potter’s hand…
[we] hold in our hands the scattered fragments of historical experience.” **
excerpts taken from Illuminations Walter Benjamin: Essays and Reflections, Edited and with an Introduction by Hannah Arendt
*The Storyteller
**On Some Motifs in Baudelaire
alive in the sea of information 