☞ The Messiness of Reality and Stories
Life does not obey genre rules. It lurches easily or uneasily from soap opera to farce, office romance to medical drama to police procedural or pornography, sometimes within minutes.
Neil Gaiman • The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe
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If artists have the capacity to make work that defies time, it is because instead of trying to force-fit a predetermined idea of the future, they have learned to live productively with ambiguity, to see it as a rich source of discovery and exploration. Instead of trying to reduce complexity, they mine it, undaunted by contradictions and paradoxes.
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