Fabula

Fabula is everywhere. Plural and partial.

Fabula, originally a latin term, meant story, fable, myth, play. In narratology, it is the basic, chronological material of a story in the order events actually happened; in contrast to how it is told, i.e. the plot or syuzhet or mise en scène.

Note that stories are everywhere: any one is busy consuming stories and sharing these; some are replicating; very few are crafting. Because it is a difficult task. Crafting requires experimentation and expertise and experience; crafting demands time. From anecdotes to arguments to narrative arcs, there is a continuum to decipher in the current context and constraints. 

What are the subtexts? What are the infra-narratives? What are the rasa-narratives? These questions are crossing all the topics in this place labelled Mahanet, where looking at everyday things allows to sense great [maha] tales, in the “ocean of stories”.

Narratives allow to navigate and connect, disconnect, reconnect. Mahanet is at the junction …