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I would like to propose a new term to encompass all these miniature spikes, these vertiginous rises and falls: the nanostory. We allow ourselves to believe that a narrative is larger than itself, that it holds some portent for the long-term future; but soon enough we come to our senses, and the story, which cannot bear the weight of what we have heaped on it, dies almost as suddenly as it was born. The gift we so graciously gave Blair Horstine in 2003 was her fifteen minutes not of fame but of meaning.Unfortunately for Lehrer, he has to keep making meaning every day out of what he's done. We'll all get to use him in our long-running rhetorical battles and move on. Until the day, of course, when something we do -- good or bad -- pushes us into the meaningsphere and we're judged by the crowd.
9 Super Insightful Paragraphs About the Hazards of Fitting Events Into the Discourse That We Think the Market Requires http://t.co/UsbcXe8m
"@mat: This very short piece by @alexismadrigal is both beautifully written and (yes) full of meaning http://t.co/ez6EvtCP"
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