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Thursday, January 29, 2004 ( 2:36 PM ) Melody And this is why I'm socially inept Found this comment in a Salon.com editorial about 1st Lady Laura Bush. It's kind of hard to see the connection to the article's subject until you actually read the article, and the actual article is irrelevant. This is what I want to comment on (sorry, I'm too lazy to figure out what it would take me to indent): "Reading a lot of fiction can, I believe, make a person expect the nonfictional world to operate by fiction's rules: There will be revelations and climaxes, people will speak eloquently, events will progress coherently and conclude satisfyingly. And, of course, massive contradictions -- personal, moral, situational -- can exist quite comfortably." Speaking as a socially inept ex-English major who still spends a good percentage of her personal time exploring fictional worlds as an escape from the real one (however nice that real one might be at the moment!), I think the writer is dead on. The amount of time I've invested in fiction has colored my perceptions of how things are and should be in the real world. Every event is part of a story with a beginning, an end, and, importantly, a moral. It's so disappointing when reality disagrees with me. # |
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