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Re: (Why) Have we stopped reading fiction ?

Quote Originally Posted by vegetable theories View Post
The real non-fiction world has become more fascinating than the world of fiction.
In the prologue (first published in the first French edition) of J. G. Ballard's "Crash" he writes something that goes like this: (I'm re-translating to English from a Spanish translation)

"We live inside an enormous novel. Each time it is less necessary for the writer to invent fictional content. The fiction is already there. The writer's work is to invent reality"

I most note, though, that I have found myself reading less and less as time goes by; however, I noticed that latter last year and I am doing my best to fix it; I try to read all the time, multiple material.

Anyway, people die...
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I am simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
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