'Most people relate to themselves as storytellers. They usually have no use for poems, and although the occasional 'because' or 'in order to' gets knotted into the thread of life, they generally detest any brooding that goes beyond that; they love the orderly sequence of facts because it has the look of necessity, and the impression that their life has a 'course' is somehow a refuge from chaos.'

R. Musil, The man without qualities (1932)