| To fail to narrativize one's own life, to fail to redescribe oneself, Rorty suggests, is to fail to be fully human. |
| We begin to narrativize our lives through our accoutrements, through our objects, as if they are the constitutive elements of subjecthood. |
| As such, a constituent element of that subjectivity relies on the struggle to narrativize a life coherently, persuasively, and with expectation of receptive understanding. |
| What we encounter is not an action in time but an index of temporal action, a scene that we, as viewers, narrativize. |
