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                                             November 31, 2013
                                             December  1, 2013

I see that a Galen-- posting to rec.arts.anime.misc
back in 2010-- noticed a pattern in fiction:

   "A paranoid believes that he lives in
   a world where everyone is plotting
   against him. But what if he's right? ...
   Is there a name for the kind of story
   in which such viewpoints are rational
   because the setting itself is pathological?"

   My answer:                    From: Galen <ga...@nekomimicon.net>
                                 Message-ID: <jtbkg65rff095hh2ekg0nashs671c9id2p@4ax.com>
   The name for this form is     https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/rec.arts.anime.misc/2cXgizutF2c/0ZXvZuZEaX8J
   "popular fiction".

   Galen phrases his question
   backward: fictional
   scenarios are created as
   justifications for insane,         The Sea Wasp had a similar
   or at least, anti-social,          answer: "'Fiction'. Virtually
   behavior.                          all fiction has something
                                      about its setting being
                                      pathological in that sense."

                                      Jack Bohn responded:

                                      Just to quote G.K. Chesterton
                                      against your premise:

                                      "Folk-lore means that the soul
                                      is sane, but the universe is
                                      wild and full of marvels."
                                      "The problem of the fairy tale
                                      is--what will a healthy man do
                                      with a fantastic world.  The
                                      problem of the modern novel
                                      is--what will a madman do with a
                                      dull world?  In fairy tales the
                                      cosmos goes mad; but the hero
                                      does not go mad."


In the third season of "The World God Only Knows",
                                                       KUSHI_DANKO
It becomes a story of prohibited behavior
that's justified by extreme circumstance:
the main character is forced to two-time      six-time?
a half-dozen women, for the sake of the
greater good: saving Kanon, and reviving
the goddesses.


                               Galen remarks:
   VILLAINOUS_MASK
                              "In The World God Only Knows,
                               our main character is Schizoid,
                               Rich Girl is Dependent,
                               Idol Girl is Histrionic,
                               Library Girl is Avoidant."



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