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We will ignore philosophical nuances, and think of the relation between mental models and possible worlds as roughly the same as the one between a vocabulary and a story (which is why I use the term narrative): a vocabulary restricts the sorts of things that can be said in a story, while a story generally uses only a part of a vocabulary, though it may occasionally leak out via neologisms.
“Travel now by all means—if you have the time. But travel the right way, the way I travel. I am always reading and thinking of the history and geography of a place. I see its people in terms of these, placed in the social framework of time and space. Take the prairies, for example; you’re wasting your time visiting these unless you know the saga of the homesteaders, the influence of law and religion at different times, the economic problems, the difficulties of communication, and the effects of successive mineral finds.
But Groff said that giving up on projects — or even setting them on fire — doesn’t feel like failure, because none of that time or effort is wasted.
“It’s practice, right?” she said. “It’s like going out there and running five miles. It’s the same idea. Some days, it’ll be really tough and awful. And some days, you’ll see an alligator gilded by the sun.”
How Lauren Groff, One of ‘Our Finest Living Writers,’ Does Her Work - The New York Times
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