The night time dream is chaotic and can be genuinely frightening. The dream we call life is filled with joy and suffering, but for many people a lot more suffering than joy, and we have no control over it. It just happens. The dream we enter when reading fiction has a number of advantages over the one called life. It is scripted rather than chaotic. If the dream called life is scripted it is done so by a bungler, whereas writers of fiction are often highly skilled.
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Malcolm Pryce on dreams, reality, and fiction
One of my favorite authors on why fiction is not a distraction from reality. Here's a taste:
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that life isn't scripted/choreographed/programmed is key to understanding limits like:
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