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It's hard enough to write a good story normally. Genre fiction has poor foundations by placing undue focus on affectations, which makes it easier to hide any lack of substance, and quickly leads to stagnation in both the genre and the readers. It becomes harmful when the reader is unable to read anything outside of their specific genre. These works rarely stand the test of time.
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Hate Fibration posted:So what advantages do literature have over some decent non-fiction? The idea that it enriches your understanding of the world and the human condition always seemed misplaced to me given that what you are really learning is what some artist thinks about how things work. Which isn't exactly very compelling. How can non-fiction express the Kafkaesque absurdity of life? There is truth that can be found in fiction that cannot be expressed in non-fiction. Subjectivity itself is valuable, and non-fiction only attempts to shed this superficially by aspiring to objectivity, but they are written from a certain point of view, filtered through particular ideologies. Fiction makes no qualms about embracing that complex reflection-in-reflection aspect of human experience, and can allow us to bridge our seemingly insurmountable gaps, even if only for fleeting moments.
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Jul 25, 2017 01:25
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chernobyl kinsman posted:to vaunt means to brag. you were bragging about your ignorance. hope this helps Well it would have to be celebrated by other people for that sentence to make sense.
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Jul 29, 2017 02:56
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learnincurve posted:I have no strong opinion on this debate but reading Gadsby By Ernest Vincent Wright is exactly like being repeatedly walloped upside the head with a thesaurus. The gimmick here is explicit though: the author wanted to write a novel without using the letter E.
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