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storiopaths r us
You'll have to read it to figure out what he means by storiopath, and then, if you're anything like me, you'll want to know a lot more about Sophie Calle (she's all over the web; see for example here and here) and about Mike, too -- although he's more elusive. Maybe I'm a storiopath, too. I hope (not? so?).
This excerpt from the blog entry gives you an idea of what the term might mean.
[Calle] seems, pardon the coinage, a storiopath -- a Nosy Parker quite insensible to the everyday norms and conventions of standard gossipry. It's normal to be curious about our fellow beings. It's normal to seek to satisfy that curiosity. To a point.I predict meetings. Hi, my name is Sara and I'm a storiopath.She seems almost oppressed by her need for stories. At one point, she asked her mother to hire a private detective to document her (that is, Sophie Calle's) daily routine. She didn't want to be aware that her story was being documented, but of course she could not help but know it was being documented. This is storytelling run amok. Certainly you could make the argument that this was a "piece", but it seems to me that it is more than that.
But then by now the careful reader will have guessed I would think that. By now it should be obvious to the careful reader that this particular post is more about my storiopathy than Sophie Calle's.
December 6, 2004 01:45 PM
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