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Hu Tao: Hey Xingqiu…
Xingqiu: Yes?
Hu Tao: Can a person breathe inside a washing machine while it’s on?
Xingqiu:
Xingqiu: Where’s Chongyun?
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What do you think of this Ursula k le guin quote about how, under capitalism, 'fantasy becomes a commodity, an industry. commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. it proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action to violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth- telling to sentimental platitude. heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe.' ?
I think Ursula was a genius, honest and wise.
I also think that sometimes, especially when they are the first things of that kind you've read, even the most hackneyed ideas can astonish, enlighten and inspire you. We bring ourselves to what we read.
So I wouldn't ever write off bad fiction, or cheap fiction, or commoditised fiction of whatever kind, because for someone somewhere it could have been the magical door for which they had always been waiting.
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for yesterday’s @guardian review
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Wood frogs survive the winter by freezing and then thawing in the warmer temperatures.
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