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Nick Kotar - Art and a Unifying Vision

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The Freudian Impulse in Writing Is a Meme

There's a tension that we in the West have, between the impulse to rationalize everything analytically. To experience the thing in itself, you can't, you must not rationalize it. I was listening to a conversation with Martin Shaw, Dr. Martin Shaw, who's a mythologist, but also a storyteller. He says never stop in the middle at the end and say, well, that chapter meant this, or that character is an archetype of this. You know, like the kind of thing that tends to kill stories. So when, so that's my fiction. My stories are me transmuting the, the rational reality, the reality of things, ideas,

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