On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Yeah, gradually people come to believe that guys like Jared Diamond >> should supply the narratives for critical things like the expansion of >> civilizations and their collapse. >> > > Have you read the book? You seem to be mischaracterizing it. It is more > description than prescription. > "A *narrative* is a constructive format (as a work of speech, writing, song, film, television, video games, photography or theatre) that DESCRIBES a sequence <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_(disambiguation)> of non-fictional <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fictional> or fictional<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional> events." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative All caps mine.
