You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
Good fiction doesn__ claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice__he way we all know things should be__ithout suggesting that__ how things really are. Good fiction is the mirage that declares itself a mirage, yet compels us to faith through its beauty. Good fiction is the dream that__ too good to be true, so perfect and symmetrical that it gives itself away every time. But it doesn__ trick you into suspending your disbelief by trying to look anything like reality. Good fiction makes you acutely, painfully aware of your disbelief, and makes you believe anyway. And when it__ done well__hen it__ done right__ood fiction is more real than reality.
Cassie Draws the Universe
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Good fiction doesn__ claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice__he way we all know things should be__ithout suggesting that__ how things really are. Good fiction is the mirage that declares itself a mirage, yet compels us to faith through its beauty. Good fiction is the dream that__ too good to be true, so perfect and symmetrical that it gives itself away every time. But it doesn__ trick you into suspending your disbelief by trying to look anything like reality. Good fiction makes you acutely, painfully aware of your disbelief, and makes you believe anyway. And when it__ done well__hen it__ done right__ood fiction is more real than reality.
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