luckily the world doesn't have to rely on my brain.

[maygra]

You all owe ellen_fremedon a round of applause and possibly cookies because she's managed to summarize and illustrate some of the issues I've been trying to get to gel in my fractured brain for the last couple of days only it's already taken me 30,000 words and I still haven't managed to make it make sense even to myself.

...and in doing so, she reminded me of something I'd written as a forward to a piece of original fiction a decade or so ago, that could apply to my fan fiction as well as any other fiction I write -- in which I tried to summarize that I do, indeed write with a sense of honesty and responsibility but both of those things are more a matter of me being honest with myself and responsibile to my own moral and ethical principles.

Therefore, enjoy, suspend disbelief and know that while all of this is true, none of it is the Truth.

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[gretazreta.livejournal.com]

Hi, sorry to butt in but i was interested in what you had to say here, very much.

You've probably come across Giorgio Agamben... the main point I remember from his "Remnants of Auschwitz" is that even survivors cannot describe the Holocaust, seeing as they were exceptions, rather than the rule. The "truth" of the Holocaust is therefore only known to those who are dead.

If we take the "truth" argument to its fullest extent, then there is no hope for writing or human expression whatever - because if we can't relate to another person's reality, then there is no purpose in trying to express through art. And the result is that we must all recognise ourselves as perpetually isolated, perhaps.

I say, screw that. But then I'm a modernist and a humanist and an agnostic all rolled into one, and I like to think that the imagination can take us to places that have their own truth, and that we can share in that. Maybe.

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