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ordinary people are really extraordinarily strange.
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
characters in story aren’t only at war with the outside world. They’re also at war with themselves. A protagonist is engaged in a battle fought largely in the strange cellars of their own subconscious mind. At stake is the answer to the fundamental question that drives all drama: who am I?
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
Culture is another route by which characters in life and fiction become the flawed and peculiar people they are.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
Is Homo sapiens capable of making sense of the world it has created? Is there still a clear border separating reality from fiction?
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
old dreams of evolutionary humanism,
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
‘to thinker’
Ian Leslie • Curious
In the face of terrifying chaos, a craving need to make sense of it all.
Douglas Atkin • Amazon.com. Spend less. Smile more.
“the majesty of man.”