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[hummingwolf]

Me, in a comment yesterday in _redsparkle_'s journal: I just realized--if I want escapist literature, I read self-help books.

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[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

Or... or... Saga. Yes? It features a whole bunch of people also failing to be competent adults. :o)

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Nooo, Saga's not escapist!

It's darn good reading, though. ::nod::

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :oD

So would you say it's more of a mirror? Sometimes I feel bad about its mirrorlike qualities, but that's what happens when I draw from myself to write about the experience of being human in general. I'm glad you're not one of those people who takes it so personally they can't even read it. I feel really, really bad for those people, as well as being righteously annoyed at them.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Isn't any good fiction a mirror? Maybe a distorted mirror, but a mirror all the same?

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Is it? No fiction I've ever shared has functioned as a mirror on anywhere near this level before. And when I read other people's fiction... I don't know, I feel more like I turn into a mirror to reflect what I read, rather than vice versa.