PART I

Fundamentals: Breaking Ground

The story resembles a wind filtering through the cracks in a wall: it gives evidence of the vastness. It provides a mobility through time and space.... To enter a story, one must give up being oneself for a while. Self-abandonment to a story is probably one of the crucial forms of human experience, since few cultures have been discovered which did not value it.

PAUL ZWEIG, The Adventurer