The Edge of Narrative
The Edge of Narrative
When I first experienced TOWA, my honest reaction was:
“I don’t get it.”
It wasn’t because TOWA was difficult.
It was because I had unknowingly internalized a silent agreement—
that stories are supposed to follow a certain structure.
That we start somewhere, go through a journey, and arrive at a conclusion.
That characters must exist, conflicts must rise, and resolutions must be offered.
But with TOWA, even placing two cards together doesn’t guarantee coherence.
Rotate just one card, and everything changes—
the context breaks down, the narrative disappears.
There are no characters, no beginning or end, no logical cause and effect.
At first, it felt like a failure of storytelling.
Or worse—something that wasn’t even trying to be a story.
I wasn’t reading—I was solving a puzzle.
A cold, fragmented, and almost meaningless structure that resisted emotional engagement.
But then it hit me:
TOWA isn’t a story.
It’s a challenge to the very idea of what a story is.
TOWA doesn’t aim to “make sense.”
It doesn’t want to guide you through a predefined path.
Instead, it invites you into the space between meanings—
into the tension, the ambiguity, the flickers of connection that may or may not emerge.
And in that confusion, something powerful happens.
We are forced to reflect on the format itself.
What makes a story feel like a story?
And how have we let certain rules and conventions dictate what we accept as “narrative”?
TOWA doesn’t want you to feel something.
It wants you to notice something—
about the way you think, the way you expect stories to behave,
and the way meaning is constantly constructed, destroyed, and reassembled.
So if you find yourself lost, frustrated, or blankly staring at the cards—
know that this is exactly where the revolution begins.
That moment of “I don’t get it”
is not the end of the story.
It’s the beginning.
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