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I don't pay much attention to the distinction between fantasy and science fiction__r between __enre_ and __ainstream_ for that matter. For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors-which is the logic of narratives in general__ver reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.We spend our entire lives trying to tell stories about ourselves__hey__e the essence of memory. It is how we make living in this unfeeling accidental universe tolerable. That we call such a tendency __he narrative fallacy_ doesn__ mean it doesn__ also touch upon some aspect of the truth.Some stories simply literalize their metaphors a bit more explicitly.
Ken Liu The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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I don't pay much attention to the distinction between fantasy and science fiction__r between __enre_ and __ainstream_ for that matter. For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors-which is the logic of narratives in general__ver reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.We spend our entire lives trying to tell stories about ourselves__hey__e the essence of memory. It is how we make living in this unfeeling accidental universe tolerable. That we call such a tendency __he narrative fallacy_ doesn__ mean it doesn__ also touch upon some aspect of the truth.Some stories simply literalize their metaphors a bit more explicitly.

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Mind", can't make differences between real and not..., (OFF NOW THAT..., then that...), you are saying lie after lie..., then believing in false stuff. And thinking in positive sides so to scream not much as the other do, but as always you one moment scream you can't stop it... Now putting against me a knife and saying "Go away... give me my daughter... give me her back"..., don't you see the people laugh at you, don't you see it. Look their faces, with so many smiles, but they aren't people, they are from the army, off, off for god sake they are soldiers which have guns. Have killed few people, have taken your daughter and they are many as a number than you and your whole family... Probably this part as an General I must skip it, because it's logical however look it and from this side, nobody will sacrifice so you to be happy... you will die.. O, o, the poor little girl crying in front of the people, she just saw her mother pointing with a knife against the soldiers and now she is killed by one of the soldiers.