all the pretty horses

[eros_in_uranium]

For years I could not bear to read fiction. Now I read almost exclusively fiction with the exception of bedtime books on modern and contemporary art. There has been nothing in literature approximating what has been happening in the art world during the past 100 years, not metafiction or magical realism (even the term was borrowed from art, first

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[klingrap]

Well, seems like nobody's good enough for you, huh?

A theory: it takes between one second and half an hour to experience a piece of art, depending on the medium and your attention span. It takes infinitely longer to read a novel. So since we are investing more of our time on reading, we're willing to take less of a risk. Besides (and someone will argue with me on this), literature is inherently form and narrative. There's only so many places you can take that.

[eros_in_uranium]

The best analogy I can think of right now (it's 6:30 in the morning and I have this intense craving for sushi, weird) is relationship. When you first meet someone, you are enamored, you rave about the things that make you drawn to that person. Then somewhere into the relationship, you notice something, you raise an eyebrow but don't say anything, and then one day you just have to say something. The very things you were crazy about before could turn into the things that make you twist in the seat. But that doesn't mean you regret being in the relationship or the person isn't good enough for you