I am indebted to Lindiwe Bardill for the following exchange which,
depending on your frame of mind, could either have occurred in a dream
or in a real conversation.
Lindiwe: "Are you free from ALL your stories?"
Laurence: "Yes. Except for the ones that I have yet to find out about."
Lindiwe: "Have you ever experienced total storylessness?"
Laurence: "Yes."
Lindiwe: "I mean, do you know that the meaning you create in life is
just the meaning that you create in life and nothing more?"
Laurence: "Yes."
Lindiwe: "Do you create the meaning while knowing the storylessness
nature of existence?"
Laurence: "Yes. Except when I don't. And as soon as I find out that I
am not doing that, then I do it again."