I love to tell the story

"Mistake me not," said the Cardinal, "the literature of which we are speaking—the literature of individuals, if we may call it so—is a noble art, a great, earnest and ambitious human product. But it is a human product. The divine art is the story. In the beginning was the story. At the end we shall be privileged to view, and review, it—and that is what is named the day of judgment.
"But you will remember," he remarked, as in a parenthesis and with a smile, "that the human characters in the book do come forth on the sixth day only—by that time they were bound to come, for where the story is, the characters will gather!"

h/t Culture Making

I think that there's something slightly amiss here: for some reason, I think it will be our stories that are viewed and reviewed alongside the divine story and not us who view and review the divine story, but nonetheless, I really, really appreciate this bit, and I think I'm going to try to pick up the book from the library.

Isak Dinesen, by the by, is really Karen Blixen (what a name!), of Babette's Feast and Out of Africa fame.

I'd like to ask those in the lair what they make of this, particularly with regard to how it relates to their relationships and the way in which they communicate with friends; those who recognize the divine art, and those who perhaps can't, don't, or won't see it.