lizbee | (Reply)

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Ah, one of those topics where I want to fly around with an airplane banner that says

STOP HELPING

I mean, I've been known to rant about literary fiction and its devotion for the past generation to the Assiduously Unhappy Ending, plus its fascination with the dis-integration of personalities. And I'm always keen to reblog that Ursula Le Guin quote about the banality of evil and the boredom of pain. But Ursula Le Guin would have no patience with this twee bullshit.

Some years ago, before I started saying "I'm getting too old for this shit" without joking, I wrote an essay about the much meatier concept of eucatastrophe, and I still think much of it holds true for me and my approach to writing and consuming stories. I mean, the Inklings aren't the answer to everything, but they very often do come up with better shit than this....