You Must Remember This

Grateful Dead: Dark Star...10/20/68

Grateful Dead: Eyes of the World...10/19/74

One describes a tale best
by telling the tale. You see?
The way one describes a story,
to oneself or to the world,
is by telling the story.
It is a balancing act
and it is a dream.
The more accurate the map,
the more it resembles
the territory.
The most accurate map possible
would be the territory,
and thus would be
perfectly accurate
and perfectly useless.
The tale is the map
that is the territory.
You must remember this.
--Neil Gaiman
American Gods