But if shouting down lawmakers trying to explain a productive, responsible proposal gets burned into the political consciousness -- while support for sensible policies is a fleeting story -- it creates a misleading picture of public sentiment.
And despite various and sundry protests, rallies, political upheavals, and wake-up calls of one kind or another, most Americans remain clueless, fixated on whatever fleeting news stories the talking heads on the 24-hour cable news channels spew forth and deem to be important.
Does Fleeting's story sound familiar?
But back to Fleeting's story.
It's a fleeting, impressionistic story — a man comes to the emergency room with a knife sticking out of his eye; the narrator and Georgie drive around until they're lost, and chance across a drive-in movie in the snow; baby rabbits are rescued, briefly — and it's a gorgeous comic masterpiece, one of the best American short stories of 1992 or any other year.
These are extended dramas rather than the fleeting moments short stories more commonly favour.
Character is one of Atta's strongest points as a writer – each character, even the most fleeting, has a story, a mannerism that stays with the reader.
And when He does make a fleeting appearance in the stories He tends to be scratching His head, wondering where He's gone wrong.
Stories of fleeting contact and "harvests" by isolated peoples are echoed in village after village as the group approaches the communal wilderness.
For Modiano, memory, experience are fluid, fleeting, and even the stories we tell ourselves are subject to change.
