ABSTRACT
I shall tell you a story, and, as I do so I wonder at what stages reality becomes story and story becomes myth. In part it is a story in the way in which all events of our lives become stories, remembered, revisited, reinterpreted and, over time, reworked to suit our changing sense of self. In this I link myself to Watson’s (2000) concept of ethnographic fiction science, in which he dem onstrates how ethnographic research accounts can be written in a way that bridges the genres of creative writing and social science. I discuss the devel opment of this story in Chapter 20, where I explain why it is written as if it were in a place far, far away, when really it is about me and my experiences and is all well documented. The events I describe here were briefly alluded to in the previous chapter.
