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The Contemporary Novel Isn't Writing About the Natural World
We're living in an age now that's dispensed with the lot of these old myths. Those are when people to know any better, when they didn't know any science. We adopt this idea that meaning somehow can only be a personal thing. If we live in this culture where the only source of meaning is what you can make for yourself, then we're going to have a kind of literature that doesn't travel very far beyond psychological crises and sociological or political issues. It's too much, too overwhelming. You're basically saying that, i mean, the contemporary novel really does not know how to write about the natural world. That frame of mind unites, in a way,
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