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Simply, fiction
By yaman | May 12, 2007
Fiction is the unraveling of God. To imagine one situation in which what was once thought to be wrong, appears with certainty to be right, is to create a world outside of and opposed to God’s law–and thus, also, to disprove it.
More importantly it is the co-optation of God’s only talent. For if this life is anything, it is nothing more than a work of fiction, an imagination gone wild with creations, and a storybook that will end at the author’s discretion.
To create fiction, then, is at once two things: it is to disprove and devalue God; and, at the same time, it is to become Him.
And so, while the selfish artist will command you to Read!, the true lords of this world will gently advise: write!
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