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“What can we possibly call this if not chaos?”

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Seth Fischer

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“Let’s call the world we actually have now Reality A and the world that we might have had if 9/11 had never happened Reality B. Then we can’t help but notice that the world of Reality B appears to be realer and more rational than the world of Reality A. To put it in different terms, we are living a world that has an even lower level of reality than the unreal world. What can we possibly call this if not “chaos”?

What kind of meaning can fiction have in an age like this? What kind of purpose can it serve? In an age when reality is insufficiently real, how much reality can a fictional story possess?”

— Haruki Murakami has some really, really good questions. (via)

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Seth Fischer
Seth Fischer’s writing has twice been listed as notable in The Best American Essays and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize by several publications, including Guernica. He was the founding Sunday editor at The Rumpus and is the current nonfiction editor at The Nervous Breakdown. He is a Dornsife PhD Fellow at USC and been awarded fellowships and residencies by Ucross, Lambda Literary, Jentel, Ragdale, and elsewhere, and he teaches at the UCLA-Extension Writer’s Program and Antioch University, where he received his MFA.

3 responses

  1. Michael Hollander Avatar
    Michael Hollander

    good questions perhaps, but look around. people are looking for ANSWERS.

  2. Seth Fischer Avatar
    Seth Fischer

    Oh, well the answers are easy. 42.

  3. adrienne Avatar
    adrienne

    there are no answers… only more questions… 🙂

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