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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
but yes, we are generally freer with imagination-- one of my problems with most of american fiction is that it gets stuck in this sort of mundane realism where the world is taken for granted-- it's all about the individual psychology in the world, and i find that utterly boring: like hollywood movies. the character goes shopping, then watches tv, then has a fight with his wife, and it's the same all shit over and over. boring.
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that is precisely why I like authors like Garcia-Marquez or Patrick Suskind, because their work is the perfect mix of that boring, everyday hollywood cinema bullshit, mixed in with some truly imaginative and extremely metaphysical shit.. it is like eating mushrooms, a blend of wiping your ass to keep it clean, mopping the floor, and experiencing the cosmic oneness of the universe at the same sentence..
in fact, I get many of own epiphanies and religious moments while doing perfectly mundane things like housework (after all, in Ethiopian Christianity we pray to the Virgin as
Imebetachin which means "Our Housewife or literally, "Woman of the House who is Ours") and standing around waiting for a bus (hence the subhumans song, "REALITY IS WAITING FOR A BUS")