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“But once we grant this, we must conceive the originary—and every subsequent—use of the sign as “narrative.” Narrativity requires nothing of the sign beyond its own inherent temporality. Narrative emerges when the time of the sign returns to the world as a model of the time of action.”

— Eric Gans, Originary Narrative · Fall 1997 · Anthropoetics