: Re: What are the things that only Stories can do? I've once heard in a youtube channel that only games could do things such as: getting the player into a flux state (something like getting into

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There are things and ideas that are impossible to display but can be told.

The Library is a sphere whose exact center is any hexagon and whose circumference is unattainable.
- Borges in The Library of Babel

One might notice an analogy to universe in the quote above. Much of modern physics and maths are such that we can convey them in story form and manipulate in our minds but can't display.

There are ideas too general or arbitrary (all polynomials of degree n) to show them (we could only show an instance) but can be discussed in all generality in a story form.

There are also things that we can't perceive with our visual perception (4 and higher dimensional shapes) even if we accurately show 2 or 3 dimensional projections. Once again, we use stories to talk about these things.

Disclaimer: of course, anything that can be written, can also be told in an audio narration or in film by narrator. I am answering the "stories" question from title not the "literature" from the body of question as these things are not specific to story being written instead of told.

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