“Fiction is simplified, custom designed to affect us in a particular way, while truth is messy and unwieldy, hard to appreciate in all its richness.”
I hate that she didn’t qualified it as genre fiction. Let me fix it: “Genre fiction is simplified, custom designed to affect us in a particular way, while literary fiction is messy and unwieldy, hard to appreciate in all its richness.” Pretty sure Véliz would agree with this version (even if it missed the point)
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2026-10-06 19:24:38 UTC
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