While John Jay reads Russian lit in Russian, I listen to country music. But “the immortal Sawyer Brown” has thoughts on the relation of truth to narrative as well:
The phone rings: it’s the call of the wild
And the clothes we wear have finally come back in style
We got some tall tales that we love to tell
They may not be true
But we sure do remember them well
From “The Boys & Me.“
Hey, I’m a Souterner, I listen to country. I grew up on Hee Haw (in its original run).