Very very true. What prompted you to write this thread re. fiction and art?https://twitter.com/elanmastai/status/1019226485255786496 …
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Considering how a writer might capture yesterday's Helsinki press conference in fiction—the complex swell of psychology, politics, history, status, threat, worry and even the comedy of it all. When reality throws down the gauntlet, fiction has to rise to the challenge.
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Replying to @elanmastai @Vik__Sahay
Fiction is certainly capable of rising to the challenge, because it can depict any individual event or moment or choice as it wishes. But fiction accepts constraints under which reality does not labor; fiction, to be satisfying and useful, must make sense.
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This obligation to cohere means that if fiction includes the bizarre incident, the tremendous moment, or the lunatic choice, it must also include some account of its roots and effects. Consequences ripple outward in every direction, inevitably binding past, present, and future.
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One arbitrary incident, moment, or choice is granted to the author of coherent fiction, but not more than one.
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