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What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.
-Aleksandar Hemon
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What Fiction And Art Can Do, Particularly

Aleksandar Hemon
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.
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Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. i'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. that it's actually the other way around. stories cull writers from the world. stories reveal themselves to us. the public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. they commission us. they insist on being told. fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. for reasons that i don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world i wake up to every morning.
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The democrats, because they are the media, still establish the narrative for washington every day. and whatever that narrative is, the republicans - for some reason (i think it's force of habit and years and years of conditioning) - still become subservient to whatever that narrative is.
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For myself, the only way i know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.
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