The Sun Collective, Charles Baxter
She had floated from one group to another, floating not so much from the drug but from the ideas and the activism, and—yes, they were as disorganized as anarchists usually are, feverish with ideas and wandering around from room to room, but they had moments of practicality when they reminded themselves that they lived in what remained of the real world: paying rent on their meetinghouse, restocking the Free Boxes they had set up around town, doing repairs on the meetinghouse wiring, and forming a new group that advocated affordable housing and another group charged with ending racism somehow.
The Sun Collective, Charles Baxter Because it hurt him to watch her consuming so much salt, he thought he probably still loved her.
The Sun Collective, Charles Baxter The fantastic occupies the duration of this uncertainty. Once we choose one answer or the other, we leave the fantastic for a neighboring genre, the uncanny or the marvelous. The fantastic is that hesitation experienced by a person who knows only the laws of nature, confronting an apparently supernatural event.
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, Tzvetan Todorov, Richard Howard translator Imperfection is, paradoxically, a guarantee of survival.
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, Tzvetan Todorov, Richard Howard translator Can we speak of the hero as if this notion were self-explanatory? What is the precise meaning of this word? And what is verisimilitude? Is its contrary (fantasy) only the property of stories in which the characters "can do anything"?
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