tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post384202550131699482..comments2023-08-20T04:55:39.436-07:00Comments on Ars Psychiatrica: MetafictionsNovalishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10501890494890617030noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-63741349290248774952010-01-01T19:32:05.799-08:002010-01-01T19:32:05.799-08:00'Good writing, whether fiction or non-fiction,...'Good writing, whether fiction or non-fiction, enhances our understanding of and attachment to reality, but by means of desire and acceptance, not mere resignation. Good writing is ultimately about attentiveness, about getting reality right, not in itself (as if we could know what reality is in or for itself), but crucially with respect to human needs.' <br><br>Interesting. So good writing makes OUR 'reality' more desireable, as opposed to a non-existent imagined/idealised OTHER 'reality'.<br><br>Does good writing create new realities (other than virtual)? Destroy current realities? Expose unconscious realities? Or does it merely artistically document realities forged by society/politics/etc.? <br><br>Good fiction is the momentary plausability of the imagined; a lapse in concrete reality; a mocking counterpoint to lived reality that arrogantly assumes it's the ultimate truth.<br><br>I think your disenchantment with fiction is partly due to cynicism (dare I say...). Lived experience is a process of elimination: we eliminate the things we don't know about by knowing them, and hence become more cynical because the world of infinite possibilities becomes increasingly encroached upon by knowledge. With cynicism comes the inability to momentarily suspend 'lived reality', and consequently fiction suffers as the fiction it functionally is - it remains just a distant skewed/reflecting mirror of 'true reality'; an object. An object of desire/repulsion?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-44777510466496784502010-01-02T07:23:26.067-08:002010-01-02T07:23:26.067-08:00Yes, your diagnosis is probably accurate, but I pr...Yes, your diagnosis is probably accurate, but I prefer "disenchantment" as the gentler term, and I think it is a treatable condition.Novalishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10501890494890617030noreply@blogger.com