Our dreams are weird, as is our favorite fiction. The strangeness is strangely normal. The nonsense makes sense in context.
The very best non-fiction is actually fiction. It is legends and propaganda taken seriously. Uninspiring reality is dramatized into wonderful stories. We are inspired by what is imagined, even if we are horrified by it. Dreams, even as nightmares, are wonderful.
Truth is what it is, not what we believe or imagine. The best fiction is true. Its realism grounds it. Its weirdness expands our consciousness. The story is a dream we experience while awake. We see reality play out in a fantasy. Everything is summarized and clarified as symbols and scenarios.
Jesus taught in parables! He told the truth as a storyteller.
There is nothing weirder ever written than the Book of Ezekiel and the Book of Revelation.
Fantasy. Science fiction. These are weirdness as genres. They are The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings and Star Trek and Star Wars and The Cthulhu Mythos and Alien. They are the classics, quite literally, as Classical Mythology.
I write fiction. It is weird. The stories are fantasies
as truth. They are waking dreams I give to everyone to dream. As of now, they
languish in obscurity… as did the Arkham
Cycle written by H.P. Lovecraft. It will be a success to fail as he did.
Fiction will always be more important than nonfiction. There is no equality there. One is more important than the other.
ReplyDeleteFiction is from the inside out. It is our spiritual telling of things... and that is what truly means anything. Everything otherwise is doomed to fade away.
DeleteThere are those who believe the history they read is what really happened. It is best to be skeptical concerning the accounts of others. People tend to omit certain things or recall them very differently.
ReplyDeleteBias and honest mistakes become "facts" as the memory of society and we call it "history." Assumptions are assumed by "experts" and become "facts." Yeah, it is best to be dubious of worldly truths.
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