It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.
Geoff RymanEverything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile.
Geoff RymanStichwörter: philosophy
You always use that word "remember",' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.
Geoff RymanStichwörter: think control remember
In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.
Geoff RymanStichwörter: writing stories science-fiction the-self blogging
I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it’s 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems to promise a better world.
Geoff RymanStichwörter: history memory albert-einstein body-language charlie-chaplin
This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can’t get fresh fruit in the shops.
Geoff RymanStichwörter: reading books age writing old-age aging
You know, all the evil in the world, all the sadness comes from not having a good answer to that question: What do I do next? You just keep thinking of good things to do, lad. You'll be all right. We'll all be all right. I wanted you to know that.
Geoff RymanShe thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers, the lists, the surveillance, and say: I am going to do the very thing you say I must not do.
And yet they were right.How were things to get better if no one fought?
Stichwörter: courage
Once there was a dictator. He drove millions to various kinds of deaths, by war, in prison, or simply in harsh deserts farming their lives away. He destroyed temples, burned books, and ruined the art of calligraphy. He wrote terrible poetry and forced everyone to learn it, so destroying the literary taste of one quarter of humanity. He remained a warrior even as Chairman. He was at his best as a warrior, because as a warrior, he was fighting for his people, dreaming for them. After that, he only ground them down. But I forgive him for saying one beautiful thing:
'Women hold up half the sky.' -- Chairman Mao Tse Tung
Stichwörter: politics beauty dictator
Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader.
Geoff RymanStichwörter: honesty empowerment originality freedom stories literature storytelling responsibility healing unexpected freshness satre
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