I have found i need a good dose of fiction reading about every other week. just to rest. relax. and enjoy. it helps me “stop and smell the roses.” everyone has their own way of this. Fiction is one of mine. most of the rest involve sunshine, wind, and water.
In Ethics class, my teacher said that many of the more recent philosophers wrote fiction. because it helps people understand their ideas better. it also spreads the idea better. ze power of books. bwahahahaha (evil laugh.).
“Storyteller” by Edward Myers
The bird falls in love with the fish, but where will they live?
“What are we to do?” I (the bird) asked.
“We must see each other as we are,” she (the fish) replied, “not as we wish to be. Although we share one spirit, we come from two different worlds and must remain apart.”
“But somehow–”
“Let us love each other but accept that we shall never live together.”
I (the bird) couldn’t bear these words.
“I will always love you.” at once she swam away.
i never saw her again.
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“At that moment Jack reached an insight, one he never forgot: a bee in a story could tickle worse than a real bee. he realized, too, that a story peach could be sweeter than a real peach, a story flower more fragrant than a real flower, a story song more melodious than a real song. what existed in a story could be more real than what existed in the world. And by reaching this insight, Jack understood the true power of his art.”
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i also read non-fiction, which also does good things for the soul, if it is good non-fiction.
“Culture Making” by Andy Crouch
“The essence of childhood is innocence. The essence of youth is awareness. The essence of adulthood is responsibility.” “Culture is what we make of the world. Culture is, first of all, the name for our relentless, restless human effort to take the world as it’s given to us and make something else.”
“Some people choose a set of cultural ripples that was not originally their own. When they do so in pursuit of economic or political opportunities, we’ve traditionally called them “immigrants”; when they do so out of pursuit of evangelistic or religious opportunities, we’ve called them “missionaries.” But as the wheels within wheels overlap more and more in a mobile world, most of us have some choice about which cultures we will call our own. We are almost all immigrants now, and more of us than we may realize are missionaries too.”
“A worldview, Middleton and Walsh say, comprises a culture’s answer to four crucial questions: “who are we? where are we? what’s wrong? What’s the remedy?” “Cultural power can be defined very simply as the ability to successfully propose a new cultural good.”
“The only way to change culture is to create more of it.”
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hence, my goal to write a good children’s book. someday.
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