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Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human i
Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human i
Approximate author period: c. 1985 AD · modern
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- David Foster Wallace
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- Approximate author period: c. 1985 AD · modern
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