Consciousness & Fiction: Erik Hoel
Musing Mind Podcast
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The Importance of Reading
Herman Melville is my biggest influence in terms of fiction and feeling deep within another person's consciousness. I wanted to write a book about science in kind of the same way that Herman Melville wrote a book about whaling. Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace, Garthress Calberg are some of my favorite contemporary writers. Captain Ahab is always forging ahead on deck and being like "Where did this pelican come from? You're going through the sky"
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