Lacking stories.

To invite the gods, ruins our relationship with them but sets history in motion . . . A life in which the gods are not invited isn’t worth living. It will be quieter, but there won’t be any stories. And you could suppose that these dangerous invitations were in fact contrived by the gods themselves, because the gods get bored with men who have no stories.*

If today, ‘having counsel’ is beginning to have an old-fashioned ring, this is because the communicability of experience is decreasing . . . After all, counsel is less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story just unfolding [my ital]. To seek this counsel one would first have to tell the story . . . [since] counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

WALTER BENJAMIN, The Storyteller

*Roberto Calasso

Get messy. Invite the Muse. Bring me your story.