“Fiction’s got a very weird and complicated job. Because part of its job is to teach the reader, communicate with the reader, establish some sort of relationship with the reader where the reader is willing, on a neurological level, to expend effort to look hard enough at the jellyfish to see that it’s pretty. And that stuff… that kind of effort is very hard to talk about and it’s real scary because you can’t be sure whether you’ve done it or not. Does that make any sense? Okay.”

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