My fav piece of prose
It didn’t matter that the story had begun, because kathakali discovered long ago that the secret
of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and
want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive
you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar
as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen
as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as
though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t.
And yet you want to know again.
That is their mystery and their magic.
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