Giants Win the Series and a Bit About Storytelling
Giants win the series after a sweep, storytelling is settling like dust; swept under the rug...
Giants win the Series
So I’m going to be honest and let you know now how exciting it is to be me. I finally found a great place to live in San Francisco, I’m going to grad school so I can do the things I love professionally, and I’m a blogging intern. AND THE GIANTS JUST WON!!!
You may wonder how I’m going to tie the Giants’ win into books, but really I’m too excited about the Giants winning to even think about books.
After peeking at my homework, I’m reminded of another beloved tradition. One that was around before the Giants were even a thought. Before there was a Major League. Before the idea of baseball. And it’s a tradition that has been there for us since childhood. Storytelling. Walter Benjamin, a literary critic who wrote “The Storyteller.” He was sounded just as dejected writing this essay as a fan of the Detroit Tigers must be right now having lost the World Series after a four game sweep.
Sorry for digressing. Storytelling. According to Benjamin, the “art of storytelling is coming to an end. One meets with fewer and fewer people who know how to tell a tale properly.” My analogy for his sad tale is this: to be a good fan of the Giants, you no longer have to be able to see the game yourself, so many people are bandwagon fans. They cheer when the Giants win, and drink themselves to sleep when the Giants lose, but they have no idea what happened during the actual game. With the advent of all our electronic devices, “the willing listener [no longer has] to assure himself of the possibility of reproducing the story.”
