you gotta help me, baby, i can't do it all by myself

Compared with the reality which comes from being seen and heard, even the greatest forces of intimate life the passions of the heart, the thoughts of the mind, the delights of the senses lead to an uncertain, shadowy kind of existence unless and until they are transformed, deprivatized and deindividualized, as it were, into a shape of it them for public appearance. The most current of such transformations occurs in storytelling ...
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958: 50).
-->Jackson, Michael. Politics of Storytelling : Violence, Transgression and Intersubjectivity.

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own—the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple—a few plain words—"My Heart Laid Bare." But—this little book must be true to its title.-- Poe