Narrative Studies #2
by Sean Ayres Cho
A single experience is worthless. We collect a group of people and have them all take the pill to collect data, this is science. We have to trust the scientist. When surveying a group of elementary school children What do you want to be when you grow up? 85% of the responses were, doctor, or firefighter. From this is was concluded that the majority of people in the world are interested in helping people. From this some go on to study the space in between learning to tie shoes, and lofting our doom beds. Others become interested in the linguistics of communication. How what do you do? is a question about work, about occupation. The graduate advisors talk about the importance of hobbies. What does the bartender do for fun? Or, why does everything have to become so serious when once the novelist gets a book deal.
Sean Cho A. is an editor. He writes and teaches in the midwest.
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