The world's earliest archives or libraries were the memories of women. Patiently transmitted from mouth to ear, body to body, hand to hand. In the process of storytelling, speaking and listening refer to realities that do not involve just the imagination. The speech is seen, heard, smelled, tasted, and touched. It destroys, brings into life, nurtures.
Every woman partakes in the chain of guardianship and of transmission.
The most extraordinary things, marvelouis things, are related with the greatest accuracy, but the psychological connection of the events is not forced on the reader. It is left up to him to interpret things the way he undersands them, and thus the narrative achieves an amplitude that information lacks. We must not forget that episodic structure was the natural way to talk out a lengthy story line if only because the experience of real life is more like a string of episodes than it is like a Freytag pyramid. Careful selectivity produces the tight pyramidal plot, and this selectivity is implemented as never before by the dsitance writing establishes between expression and real life. To interpret a text is not to give it a meaning, but on the contrary to appreciate what plural consittutes it.