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Ann Patchett • State of Wonder: A Novel
Now: the second-best of times.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Yes, the novelist knows humanity, how worthless they are, ruled by their testicles, swayed by cowardice, selling out every cause because of their greed – all he’s got to do is thump on the drum, and there’s his response.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: A Novel
diegetically,
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
We live what our protagonists live.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
his story expressed one of the unappeasable longings of the human imagination: the idea of a perfected society in which the world’s lost innocence will be restored and the Golden Age before the Fall will return.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Einstein’s famous proof of the Eternal Return of the Jew and how it can be measured only in terms of the Eternal Exile of the Jew,