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Owning it all (1987)
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It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.
William Kittredge
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William Kittredge
Born:
August 14, 1932
Died:
December 4, 2020
(aged 88)
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