A storyteller has a different agenda from the emperor. [And yet] there's a limit to what storytelling can achieve. We're not saying that a poet can stop a battalion with a couple of lines of his poetry. But there are other forms of power. The storyteller appeals to the mind, and appeals ultimately to generations and generations, and generations.
~ Chinua Achebe
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An emperor is different from a storyteller also because they can nationalize publishing houses and the press to publish their stories. Most storytellers can't do that. Unless they are emperor storytellers... but no one is telling that story now are they?!
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