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S3E16 - 1st Page Feedback - Untitled by David

Death Of 1000 Cuts

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The Willing Suspension of Disbelief

Fiction is just a bunch of humans terrified of their own mortality Giving money to be gaslit by strangers Once upon a time there was a sad man Bollocks no there wasn't you just made that up and yet? I'm strangely intrigued why in this transparently false time you're inventing was this man sad because frankly I'm hoping if I tolerate this deception long enough you'll tell me that the man became happy in fact. You've got to make us care on an emotional level and stuff has to Feel real even though it's not which is a thorny problem, right? Potentially it's where we get the Tiffany problem a term coined I believe by author Joe Walton to describe

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