SLSL Intro "Our Common Nightmare"

[David Morris]

--- Wasted Words <morewastedwords at yahoo.com> wrote:
> In some great fictions, even the most permenant values (i.e., murdering an
innocent old woman is evil or murdering a stranger for no appartent reason is
evil) are challanged by the non-conventional expression of the events that lead
up to these acts of evil or by the unconventional reactions of the characters
to them. [...]
> The list goes on and on but we expect these things or not because the
novelist and or narrator(s), through various methods (sometimes simply by 
appealing to our conventional or shared views of things like murder and
sometimes via not so conventional methods) invites us to expect or not to
expect these things in the world he/she has created. 

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists
of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." --Albert
Camus (1913 - 1960)

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