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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
-Manuel Puig
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For Someone Who Writes Fiction, In Order

Manuel Puig
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. one writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. one writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.
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So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the present conflict to enter a condition in which there shall be no conflict; or whether you are unaware, unconscious of this conflict in which you exist. if you are unconscious of the conflict, that is, the battle that is taking place between that self and the environment, if you are unconscious of that battle, then why do you seek further remedies? remain unconscious.
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The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. in fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. we can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. this explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. these influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious.
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I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. my theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. if we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... all animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.
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This fact was something i also learned from this first novel that i needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time i needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. if the experience is very close, i feel inhibited. i have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. if the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, i need a distance, a distance in time and in space.
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