Episode 32

Story

Jazzy begins the discussion by telling us about his father's health. Phreddie immediately responds by reminding us of the film "Rashomon". Perspectives. Jimmy ask, "Is a painting a story?"

THE THREE-HEADED MAN concludes, "It's all a story..."

Phreddie adds a phrase that he learned from Robert Flaherty, sometimes we have to "lie to tell the truth".

THE HEADS ask, "How do we share our truth? And, they consider memory and it's relationship to story. Phreddie says, "My reality is a series of stories I've told myself."

Jimmy reminds us that storytelling was used to pass along information and culture.

What happens when reality and one's story don't agree?

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Fred M Schill

I like to do. I like to make things. And, I like telling stories. I tell stories to myself and to others.

First, a short biography, which is, of course, is a story. I was born in Cleveland, played sports, and attended university. Later, after a few years in the radio business, I returned to university to study education and literature.

With a teaching certificate in my file folder, I began working in high schools, first as a strike-breaking scab substitute teacher in Cleveland's far suburbs, and then in Chicago, mostly in private high schools.

Cleveland and Chicago. My two main towns, and I escaped them both. Presently, I live in a tiny, isolated, mountain village in Spain. I am reluctant to write the name of the town because I don't like tourists. When the tourists arrive, they look at me as if I am an animal in a zoo.