All stories are true. They may not have happened, but all are true.

It's difficult for some people to grasp this - and Robert's quote is a nice definition.

Perhaps we could we give them an Alethiometer?

If we do a Koestler style RMBL and marry McKee's screen-writing to the Adaptation of a book to a topical film (The Golden Compass) could we hit on some recent posts? Story as a kind of social "technology", creating meaning in a shared "space" (not captured, contained and controlled as dark materials in a dusty old database).

Lost in translation was a fun film (of course there's nothing physical to lose - nouns and verbs again ;) and the translation from Greek (Aletheia) to Latin (Veritas) offers some room to explore the possibility of mis-interpretation - on the certainty of belief in logic, proof-positive, and the needy desire for verification or an open acceptance of future falsification, letting go of old paradigms (to welcome new ones) - of course this may be an example of getting lost in the translation, too, so I'll just hope my faith in the film becomes a justified true belief :)