tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post8210255458339519261..comments2024-03-18T19:05:39.072-07:00Comments on Morphosis: An (X) StoryAdam Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-72014111761675662342020-10-20T04:19:20.039-07:002020-10-20T04:19:20.039-07:00If you believe in God, you believe in stories. God...If you believe in God, you believe in stories. God is a story. The spirit is a story. There's no third group.<br /><br />You either believe in the inside (perception) or the outside (science). Either dualism, or monism (respectively of the inside or the outside, or ...dual aspected). Since everything begins with a distinction, there are no three parts. Three parts are only the repetition of the same act of distinction.Abalienohttp://loopingworld.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-25433392578882658142020-10-20T02:54:40.583-07:002020-10-20T02:54:40.583-07:00Recent events and a recent project have brought me...Recent events and a recent project have brought me to a similar point, but from a different perspective. In Gibbs's THE PARTICIPATION REVOLUTION and in the very popular marketing ploy of driving stories to capture people's hearts, attention, and therefore, money (i.e. RHUL's own What is your Why? campaign), I think this obsession with stories have made us all less 'human,' less able to understand humanity. Precisely because we are NOT made of stories. That it takes a lot more imagination and compassion to be able to grasp that humans are more complicated than the stories we present. <br /><br />Needs a lot more thinking and work still, but maybe you get the gist. :)yenooihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09366247225010237224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-75363227879024115242018-11-06T01:41:29.980-08:002018-11-06T01:41:29.980-08:00I liked your comment at Sublime Cognition that fic...I liked your comment at Sublime Cognition that fictional stories (e.g. Anna Karenina) are not true, and that SF stories are therefore even less true. This blog post reminds me of that short discussion. If there's a continuum or spectrum of 'truthiness' would you say Priest's fiction is more or less on one side? I'd say he's on the 'truthier' side because his stories seem very realistic but with weird slippages thrown in. Compared to, say, completely speculative fiction. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think Priest's SF is 'hard'. Pretty sure this is uncontroversial, but maybe adds something to what you've said. <br /><br />All this to say I love Priest's work.Gwilymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04751653480717927444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-88180825975011125102018-09-11T01:55:22.617-07:002018-09-11T01:55:22.617-07:00The charge of inhabiting a warped and unpleasant w...The charge of inhabiting a warped and unpleasant world-view with disconcerting ease is one that could have been brought against Priest long before now. (<i>Fugue</i> is the obvious example, but not the only one - I gave away my copy of <i>The Quiet Woman</i> because I didn't want it in the house.) I have no idea what Priest's political views actually are, though, which is a tribute in itself.<br /><br />As for this particular skewed perspective, we'll probably never know whether or not the author has adopted it himself, but it doesn't seem very likely. For Christopher Priest, of all the writers you could name, to be a <b>Truther</b>...!Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009879034507926661noreply@blogger.com