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The Real Story Begins After the Last Sentence Ends
Published Dec 1, 2022
Updated Dec 1, 2022
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Workshop Diary Entry 2.
Translator: Austin Wagner
“Sorry, but I just don’t like reading fiction,” I sometimes hear apologetically. And it’s not even speculative fiction they’re talking about, but fiction in general, as if only real events, biographical elements, or history can give a text credibility. We talk a lot nowadays about the relationship between fiction and reality, and usually as an either-or relationship, as mutually exclusive elements we have to choose between: what’ll it be Neo, the red pill or the blue?
But it’s so much more exciting to examine the points of connection.
So much more interesting to see how fiction influences reality, or us.
And I’m not just saying this as self-justification, as ammunition for those Sunday lunches when I have to defend myself as the
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