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Sunday, 5 June 2011

The Idiot's Tale

Posted on 04:07 by Unknown
‘Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day to day living that wears you out.’ – Anton Chekhov

The relevance to the thinness of a certain mode of science fiction and fantasy, which advances narratives by a series of crises and cliffhangers, should be obvious.
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