Boredom in talks stems from unconnected facts, not from the whole-making which prevents cliché

Evidence

It is exactly when, in an address to a group, the repeated interpretation tends to deal with a collection of discrete facts that both the audience and the interpreter himself become bored and listless. We all view with horror the possibility of what we call a stereotyped performance. Such a cliché is almost impossible when the interpreter has, either by intuition or by plan, managed to convey a dramatic whole. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 308

Categorization

• SEED: The claim that ‘dramatic wholes’ make stereotyped performances almost impossible is a testable craft thesis about storytelling as much as interpretation.
• DEEPTHINKING: Inverts the usual intuition that wholes are hard and parts are easy: here listing discrete facts is what breeds cliché, while conveying a dramatic whole forestalls it.
• XREF: connects to: Interpretation should present a bounded whole rather than any single part — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 306; Boredom’s absence in stimulus-rich culture blocks the questioning that once fueled movements like punk — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2126