Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.
Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
Fiction is socially meaningful.
Most fiction comes from your experience.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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