if you read a lot you’ll basically never undergo any life experience without a fictional representation of it already in your head and I’m not sure if that’s good or bad
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now that I’m writing about my life it’s worse because I find myself narrating everything as I live it and get weirdly worried I’m being too performative / doing things for fodder (though ofc everything is material and I know that’s fine)
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this is how I deal with stuff too, although not strictly fiction — whatever is occupying / bothering me at the time, I read about obsessively. I keep track of every book that I read but I can't reveal them all because it would be Telling lol
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I’ve long though that given the ubiquity of technology and media, pretty much every reality interaction is already referential. That wasn’t true not that long ago. We’re in some sort of self-referential loop or, like Baudrillard would say, “We’ve set ourselves in orbit”!
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I do this. Every time something happens I my life, I read a bunch of books about it. Since I got a divorce, I read everything I could find about love and relationships. Not fiction though, more like the sociological, psychological, and philosophical aspects of it
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