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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Aug 22, 2008 16:58:19 GMT
One would have thought that the ability to suspend belief and wander through a fantasy world might be a prerequisite for a Sutton fan.
I mean. The real world is a scary place at GGL innit!? ;D
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Post by ambersalamander on Aug 24, 2008 12:27:18 GMT
I dunno I've always seen fiction very differently. I've never seen it as "something someone has imagined in his/her head." Good fiction, other than pure escapism (which definitely has its place), should have some basis in reality. Good fiction is an illustration of what could happen if we're not careful, or food for thought about why something happened in the past, or an allegory of certain facets of human nature, told in such a way as to bring to one's attention things about oneself or others that one might not otherwise notice or think much about (Thomas Hardy was so good at this that I really hate his books as they are too depressing for me!). I am sure that I have become a better person for reading a huge amount of fiction. Even the Harry Potter books contain a great deal of this human nature stuff. The book I have been attempting to write in between degrees ( ) is allegorical and is designed to make people think about what happens when we follow blindly without questioning authority and custom, and when people misuse religion, but in order to do this it needs to "make up a story" as the perfect event to illustrate all the points I wish to make has not, to my knowledge, happened in real life.
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