Dustin Poirier
speaker
344 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
Dustin Poirier’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm not entirely sure where I conjured up that story from.
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I guess I imagined that that would be part of the story.
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Now, since then, I've learned a lot about storytelling.
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reflects real life is in some way analogous to real life and in this way we can tell human stories using fantastical ideas as metaphors
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And there are certain magical elements that are involved within the story.
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As my friend very aptly put once, and it's a mantra almost of writing, and I come back to often, fantasy people, real problems.
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That is the crux of a truly good fantasy story.
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And they are beautiful, magnificent.
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and still, of course, contain great profundity.
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The skill there is trying to use our world's limited language to convey these powerful feelings, thoughts and moments
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of human existence.
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Particularly I think the story The Blue Castle is
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so exquisite in its ability to over the course of what is not a very long book tell this wonderful profound story that on the face of it appears to be about about rebellion
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about romance to a certain degree.
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But truly at its core it's about what it means to be alive.
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I won't say too much in case you've not read it or in fact heard me read it on this podcast.
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but I will say it's absolutely worth listening to or reading.
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I think that the favourite stories of mine that I'll come back to often in my mind, outside of literature, of course, is
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those that were told by people to me.
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And so we have a rich oral tradition as humans.
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