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struggling to grasp the novel’s relation to eros. not super getting that the novel is a reality (happy ending) + fiction (lovers strife in book)+ reader-seeing-both triangulation, on how that feels at all like lover + beloved + distance? maybe the reader observing the distance and the distance itself are conflated here. is dramatic irony as delicious as love? i would hate for it to be as simple as that

the way carson talks about eros being a connective tension between the real and the ideal reminds me of how suvin conceives of SF being a connective tension between existing historical conditions and a utopian horizon. not sure if random pattern recognition or meaningful juxtaposition