A Celebration of Ordinariness
…Vladimir Nabokov once said that the purpose of storytelling is “to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of future times; to find in the objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern and appreciate in far-off times when every trifle of our plain everyday life will become exquisite and festive in its own right: the times when a man who might put on the most ordinary jacket of today will be dressed up for an elegant masquerade.” From NYT OpEd 6/16/09 “But Always Meeting Ourselves” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/opinion/16mccann.html?_r=1&em So flash forward about 40 years to Seinfeld/David and the “show about nothing”. Not saying that Seinfeld was high art. (not that there’s anything wrong with high art) Storytelling though, lifting the mundane to the sublime through the act of recording and retelling.
