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Christelle Tamundele
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He says: "there is a yawning canyon between what is desirable in life and what is desirable in fiction"
We don't want a perfect story, we want trouble and plots.
Even though it most fictions follow the same structure, William James quotes: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important"
— Dec 03, 2025 03:03PM
We don't want a perfect story, we want trouble and plots.
Even though it most fictions follow the same structure, William James quotes: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important"
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Christelle Tamundele
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"Fiction projects us into intense simulations of problems that run parallel to those we face in reality"
Neural networks, with mirror neurons, activate when we perform an action, experience an emotion or see anybody else do so
So if we watch a movie or read fiction. We seem to be able to feel asif we're in it
— Dec 18, 2025 07:09AM
Neural networks, with mirror neurons, activate when we perform an action, experience an emotion or see anybody else do so
So if we watch a movie or read fiction. We seem to be able to feel asif we're in it
Christelle Tamundele
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Honestly? Yap
Okey stories are everywhere.
Theres always a problem...
— Nov 29, 2025 04:25PM
Okey stories are everywhere.
Theres always a problem...
Christelle Tamundele
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There's stories all around us. Dreams (jight and day), movies, religion, books... Kids play all the time and make up stories as they go. As adults we can't because of our jobs, but our imagination still exists. Gottschall says "the writer guides the way we imagine but does not determine it". We imagine the faces and all the things that arent in the books ourselves.
— Nov 05, 2025 05:58AM
