Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not in my nature to be too literal.
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.
If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.
There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Writers are completely out of touch with reality.
When you want to transcribe an idea truthfully from the page to the screen, it is not necessarily best to be particularly literal about it. It can be hard to convince people, specifically writers, of that.
The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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