i know i was happy to see a contribution by greg harlow who was my colleague at the coleman center last year. and whose poetry i just absolutely love. so i think this readers will be i will very appreciative. >> one of the things that i thought a lot about in reading the book version, it's a point you make in one of your essays that's the last one. on arjun origin stories. and you know, you note that origin stories which work wherever you can find a and nations, most societies have them for those thatregard themselves as people have been . become mythologized. and you know, they serve a variety of political and cultural purposes . and there and messed deep in a sense of belonging and non-belonging so one of the questions i got thoughtful about was if the alternative origin story because that's how youpresent it. that you propose to run some of the same risks . both now and in the future of mythmaking and creative remembering and this remembering, distorting as well as revealing and in a sense being no truer than the others. so i guess i want to ask about a couple of sort of possibilitie

i know i was happy to see a contribution by greg harlow who was my colleague at the coleman center last year. and whose poetry i just absolutely love. so i think this readers will be i will very appreciative. >> one of the things that i thought a lot about in reading the book version, it's a point you make in one of your essays that's the last one. on arjun origin stories. and you know, you note that origin stories which work wherever you can find a and nations, most societies have them for those thatregard themselves as people have been . become mythologized. and you know, they serve a variety of political and cultural purposes . and there and messed deep in a sense of belonging and non-belonging so one of the questions i got thoughtful about was if the alternative origin story because that's how youpresent it. that you propose to run some of the same risks . both now and in the future of mythmaking and creative remembering and this remembering, distorting as well as revealing and in a sense being no truer than the others. so i guess i want to ask about a couple of sort of possibilitie