We make fiction for the same reason as we make buildings: security. Rigid notions of causality in fiction have developed as shelter from a fear of the unstructuredness of actual events. Few societies have been more afraid than ours of losing a status quo that was illusory in the first place.
--M. John Harrison
I wish I were in the right country to see that play. I read it at Yale; I've wanted to ever since. She seems to be so rarely performed anywhere.
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