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    Turtles all the way down Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 05 May 2011
    This comic, recently sent my way by a good friend and former Tricycle intern, seemed worth sharing. I appreciate the message and the turtle instantly reminded me of a passage from David Loy's The World is Made of Stories, recently reviewed by Alan Senuake for Tricycle.From The World is Made of Stories: More »
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    The World is Made of Stories: To Understand is to Story Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 21 Sep 2010
    The September Tricycle Book Club is underway, and we're discussing David Loy's The World is Made of Stories. Join the conversation here (sign up is free and easy!). From the first chapter of The World is Made of Stories: If the world is made of stories, stories are not just stories. They teach us what is real, what is valuable, and what is possible. Without stories there is no way to engage with the world because there is no world, and no one to engage with it because there is no self. The world is made of our accounts of it because we never grasp the world as it is in itself, apart from stories about it. More »
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    At the Tricycle Book Club: An Interview With David Loy Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 07 Sep 2010
    David Loy is going to be at the Tricycle Book Club Monday, September 20 to discuss his latest book, The World is Made of Stories. If you are planning on joining the conversation (or aren't sure yet and need some convincing), you will enjoy listening to a Q&A about the book between Loy and Tricycle's Joan Duncan Oliver. During the interview Loy explains the big subject of his little book: what constitutes a story and why it matters. More »
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    David Loy at the Tricycle Book Club Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 01 Sep 2010
    Join us Monday, September 20 at the Tricycle Book Club for the discussion of David Loy's The World is Made of Stories. In this small book about big ideas, Loy attempts to tell the story of stories by engaging in a playful, energetic dialogue with wisdom quotations from a wide variety of sources. Everything that we know, Loy contends, we know from stories. He writes: "We play at the meaning of life by telling different stories." If stories hold this much power, and we're all storytellers (Loy also points out that to not tell a story is to tell a story), then what can we take away from this understanding? More »