Subject: The idea that fiction is "real" (for some value of real)
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Posted on: 2010-07-22 21:41:00 UTC

I think there are probably people in philosophy or literature exploring that idea. It reminds me a little of the way Plato talked about essential concepts being more real than the things that took the shape of those essential concepts; or the way sociologists and psychologists talk about archetypes or about the way ideas spread and take on a life of their own.

Ideas are powerful and very, very real. And fiction is a kind of idea. So in a way, fiction *is* real; it's just not material.

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