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Octavia Butler: Visionary Fiction (2021)
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Is Octavia a Prophet?
The world that she's depicting in parable of the sower, it feels so much like that's what we're experiencing now. Do you think she saw herself as prophetic? Oh, absolutely not. She did not predict the future. She observed what was happening around her, and then she extrapolated from what she knew. I wouldn't call anyone a prophet, per se, but I do think that Octavia was tapping into something,. She was tapping intoSomething, and she was channeling it. And I think that it's okay to acknowledge that and to hear that.
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