Carapace as part of story

From August 31 memos:

Some of the stories have a meta aspect in which they refer back to Carapace. In July, one storyteller told a fortunately/unfortunately story in which his new job had prevented him from coming to Carapace for a while, and ended by saying that now he was here! A later storyteller that evening concluded her story by saying she was happy where she ended up. Part of “where she ended up” was Carapace.

People tell personal stories at Carapace and, especially for regulars, Carapace becomes part of their personal lives. So, perhaps it is inevitable that Carapace will become part of some of the stories.

Also, in a comment on the blog, Randy takes this even further and indicates that Carapace is part of every story, in that the moment shapes the story as it is being told:

It's interesting to me, too, that the person Benjamin describes as being accepted is the person as s/he is at the moment of telling the story ... a person who will soon change (in a month? Week? Day?) and may elect to tell the "same" story differently, or not tell it at all. This goes to what I think of as the existential edge of Carapace, immediacy manifest in a lot of ways. An edge that was betrayed when we recorded the shows, and when WABE had the cable-TV version -- which, let me say quickly, most of us loved! At the same time, to isolate and replay a moment that has passed means a sort of distortion or brutality to that moment, at least in true personal storytelling. I think so, anyway.