Contradictory (or not) citations
“This is a catastrophe that we hope will not end where it began; it might go on and become a story. It will not have to be made up — that is all-important to us — but we do have to know in what odd places to look for missing parts of a story about a wildfire and of course have to know a story and a wildfire when we see one. So this story is a test of its own belief — that in this cockeyed world there are shapes and designs, if only we have some curiosity, training, and compassion and take care not to lie or be sentimental.”
—Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire
“To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.”
—Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet
