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December 6, 2011
April 19, 2013
A subject I've touched on in various ways:
fiction vs. non-fiction
NON
defense of didactic fiction;
fiction with message; DIDACTICS
novels of ideas SNEERFEST
the utility of the story form;
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hidden depths in light fiction;
TAKEN_LIGHTLY LIGHT_EXPECTATIONS
I'm not someone who just enjoys
fiction, I'm someone who cares And yet, I've written
about it, who believes in it. very little of it,
and none in recent years.
I'm regularly offended
by people who downplay
the importance of But isn't it possible
fiction: it's "just that this fiction about WORLDS_END
entertainment"; "mere fiction, might have some
escape"... utility of it's own.
That myth of irrelevance
might be critical for it
to do what it does.
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Let's tell a story
about a world where
fiction is the state
religion... a land where
a downer ending is a
crime against society.
Where psychologists
debate the harm of
violent fiction; where
people regard a story
about rape as a crime
almost as bad as rape;
where...
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