Excitement Quote by John Hope

"One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story" flatters a very specific hunger: not just for narrative, but for access. The line works because it turns novelty into an emotion you can almost touch, as if the body recognizes something the mind can’t yet name. "Untold" isn’t merely unpublished; it implies withheld, overlooked, maybe even suppressed. The excitement is partly aesthetic (new characters, new turns) and partly moral: the sense that the world is about to get bigger, fairer, truer.

The phrasing is slyly communal. "One feels" avoids the ego of "I" and the coercion of "you", pitching the reaction as almost social fact. It suggests a roomful of listeners leaning in at once, which makes the pleasure feel legitimate rather than nosy. At the same time, it hints at the politics of attention: some stories go untold because someone lacked a platform, safety, language, or permission. So the excitement has an edge of belatedness, even guilt. Why is this only being heard now?

Context matters because John Hope is a name shared by multiple public figures, including an influential Black educator and civil rights leader in the early 20th century. If that’s the author, "untold story" reads as a quiet indictment of who gets archived and who gets erased. It celebrates storytelling, yes, but it also pressures the listener: if you’re thrilled to hear what was missing, you’re now responsible for what you do with it.