the innermost human self and external events can be expressed. Narrative secures events in a temporal framework and gives permanence to the unique incident; only then are the formation, transmission, and reception of tradition possible. Narrative brings things into a factual, temporal, and spatial relationship; “it arranges things ex post facto in a plausible structure that shows they necessarily or probably happened that way.”46 A narrative establishes insight by creating new connections and allowing
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