master fiction writer evan s. connell's history of custer's last stand (Son of the Morning Star) is a 500-page nonfiction commentary on this
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@sarahdoingthing really, reality is "boring"? Thought it was "stranger than fiction" at times...e.g. what about Jeb!, Carson, asf.? :) -
@AlexSchleber its causality structures are pretty boring - constructed mysteries almost always better than real ones - 4 more replies
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@sarahdoingthing@drethelin "reality is coherent" [citation needed] -
@random_eddie@drethelin narrative as causality superstimulus
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@sarahdoingthing I suspect the most compelling fiction is midway down that right slope--more coherent than reality without being schmaltzy. -
@kellydigges yes! fiction with complexity & ambiguity but still more coherent than life, vs. glurge - 1 more reply
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the problem of compelling stories of good vs. evil - "too good to be true" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2670773 …pic.twitter.com/tiVuVxcIBV
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@sarahdoingthing In grad school we had to take a seminar on what to do with cheating students. STRONG implication we should ignore. - 5 more replies
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@sarahdoingthing@ArmchairPseph minor addition - truth is coherent, detailed and *consistent* - meaning empirically verifiable. - 2 more replies
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