...memorials, objections, and intentions that compose parish discourse. Most are presented narratively. "We dream in narrative, daydream in narrative, remember,...construct, gossip, learn, hate and love by narrative," says Barbara Hardy." Her point about the narrative nature of gossip is especially appropriate to an...

...mind. Her article, with those words as title, was printed in Novel: A Forum on Fiction. She wrote: We dream in narrative, daydream in narrative, remember,...construct, gossip, learn, hate, and love by narrative. In order really to live, we make up stories about ourselves and others, about the personal as well...

...inner and outer story-telling that plays a major role in our sleeping and waking lives. For we dream in narrative, remember, anticipate, hope, despair,...construct, gossip, learn, hate and love by narrative. In order really to live, we make up stories about ourselves and others, about the personal as well...

...related to all others with nothing to spare (Nehamas 1985). More cogently, Hardy (1968) has written that "we dream in narrative, daydream in narrative, remember,...gossip, learn, hate and love by narrative" (p. 5). Elaborating on this view, Maclntyre (1981) proposes that enacted narratives form the basis of moral...

...in general as enacted narratives" (p. 211; emphasis added). He quotes Barbara Hardy, who says that "we dream in narrative, day-dream in narrative, remember,...construct, gossip, learn, hate and love by narrative" (Maclntyre, 1981, p. 211). Finally, Maclntyre too relates narrative to intentionality when he says...

...After Virtue, p. 2o8. 51 Maclntyre, After Virtue, p. 212. Maclntyre quotes Barbara Hardy in support: 'we dream in narrative, day-dream in narrative, remember,...construct, gossip, learn, hate and love by narrative'. 'Towards a poetics of fIction: an approach through narrative', Navel, 2 (1968),5-.4(p.5). in some narrative...

...or tragic without questioning the reality of that conversation (p. 21 1). As Barbara Hardy put it, 'we dream in narrative, day-dream in narrative, remember,...construct, gossip, learn, hate and love by narrative'." This conception of narrative life recognizes that whilst we retain our narrative it intersects with...

...is anl inner and outer storytelling that plays a major role in our sleeping and waking lives ... for we dream in narrative, daydream in narrative, remember,...doubt, plan. revise, criticize, construct, gossip, leam, hate, and love by narrative. In order really to live, we make up stories about ourselves and...

...singer or the writer; narrative form is neither disguise nor decoration. Barbara Hardy has written that "we dream in narrative, daydream in narrative, remember,...construct, gossip, learn, hate and love by narrative" in arguing the same point.1 At the beginning of this chapter I argued that in successfully identifying...

...and an aesthetic concern, and so on.) It is well to remember Barbara Hardy's celebrated observation: "We dream in narrative, daydream in narrative, remember,...revise, criticize, construct, gossip, learn, hate and live by narrative" (1968, p. 5). Narratives — those linguistic patterns that give body to, or "body...