What Do You Want from Fiction?

[Mark Kohut]

My favorite "judgment of" quote. Followed, more aesthetic-only, by Nabokov's "makes the hair on one's arm stand" ....

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> On Apr 2, 2015, at 5:53 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think Kafka was onto something when he said that a book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:58 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A Consumer Question: What motivates your reading of fiction?
>> Boredom? Truth-seeking! Aesthetics? Hunger for...
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>> For me Pynchon has always represented someone who is trying to understand and then message his understanding of "Reality."  He does so by constantly portraying the perspective of many loony historical examples. We are invited to scoff!  But underneath, there is sincerity. In GR he is his most "Mystic," and that is why it is my favorite. Yet I have always felt a dissatisfaction with GRs leading questions met with unknowing, it feels like, despite the sincerity, Pynchon is himself usure. That uncertainty is morally good. But is it satisfying?
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>> Just a Question.
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>> David Morris 
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>> I think most seek self with identify witty, but his love of the world gvdsa
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