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Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.
Ah, how hard it was, even half-delirious or asleep, to conceive of something new!
Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing.
The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don't think the author should be.
This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and Jesus is nowhere to be found.
Corruption hates what is not corrupt.
I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, each one moving separately, yet part of a process that ultimately would produce an emotion or a sequence of emotions. You could swap out parts, replace them if they got too old. And this time you would build in some redundancy, if only just to handle the stress.
One question was: Would the engine still work if you were aware of it, or if you were told how it actually functioned? Maybe this was one of the crucial differences between a story and a machine.
The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.
I think it's no coincidence that people who are good at writing far-out fiction are also good at meta-fiction. Think of all the best Phillip K. Dick stories, where you experience a sort of dislocation, and suddenly what you think you've been reading is, in fact, something else entirely.
There's nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.
