Joe: You know,
every story describes only a limited number of events and things.
A lot more are just implied.
And even more are not considered at all.
For example,
in a story,
the main character walks through a city.
That's what is described in the story.
Or maybe also some description of stuff which seems to be relevant according to the main character.
Or to the narrator.
But just the fact of mentioning a city implies a lot of houses, people living there, doing stuff.
But what exactly are they doing?
The story never mentions it, so they could be doing absolutely anything!
So maybe the most interesting thing in a story could be something not mentioned by the story at all?
And again maybe someone notices a simplification in it and uses it to their advantage?
Joe: Isn't it the point of making a story, to talk about the interesting stuff and skip whatever is not relevant?
Joe: Yeah, but how can you know?
How can you know if the stuff not mentioned in the story isn't much more interesting?
You can never know,
because,
it's not mentioned in the story!
