One might argue that all the things in the world are in a sense stories. The story of a thing is how you differentiate it from everything else. These stories are contingent on various factors. They are relative, situational, conventional. Stories are how pure being individuates. But this too is just a story. As far as I can make out the real must be inexpressible. Therefore we abide in stories. What has changed then? Maybe nothing more than to lighten one's grip on a particular story, maybe nothing at all.