David Shields - Reality Hunger (2010)

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Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any,

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Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you, discard the rest. Such an act of editorship is bound to reflect something of the individual doing the editing: a plaster cast of an aesthetic-not the actual thing, but the imprint of it.

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Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

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