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I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and provincial prejudices. it is not my job to lull you with a false sense of the rightness of the universe. this wonderful and terrible occupation of recreating the world in a different way, each time fresh and strange, is an act of revolutionary guerrilla warfare. i stir the soup. i inconvenience you. i make your nose run and your eyes water.
-Harlan Ellison
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I Don't Know How You Perceive My

Harlan Ellison
I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and provincial prejudices. it is not my job to lull you with a false sense of the rightness of the universe. this wonderful and terrible occupation of recreating the world in a different way, each time fresh and strange, is an act of revolutionary guerrilla warfare. i stir the soup. i inconvenience you. i make your nose run and your eyes water.
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