ABSTRACT

A story is an answer to a question. Who are you? Where do you come from? What do you do? Why

did you do it? What happened? What happened next? And so on. There is no complete story of a

life or an event, nor can there be since there is always something more to be said, another angle

to be taken. Just bigger stories that can contain smaller ones, as the wise man in The Crossing

observed. The conditions shaping the act of asking the question, and the freedoms and fears of the

person asked, give substance to the story told.