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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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said a thing like “sometimes parts of you can be confused about the point of fiction, and about the actual relationship between fiction and reality” and i’ve been thinking about it pretty much nonstop since then
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so my question is. why are the millennials who read these books so fucking bad at taking this universal Moral to heart looking at how my fellow kids are actually living youd think it never occurred to them to wonder. am i the baddie this feels like an indictment of literature
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
feels like i'm in this weird double bind where i was raised to believe that the point of most fiction was "just for entertainment" and i kinda don't believe that anymore. i think fiction is almost inherently about education, esp. moral education
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there’s also a side to this you have to have your guard up about writing fiction has me realizing that it takes a lot of skill and practice to *not* put simplistic moral values into a story and even then, it’s still there. there’s always a worldview.
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