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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Thought for the Weekend - The Writing Stranger

For this week's thought for the weekend, I give you the following quote - Love the idea of the theoretical stranger!





"What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do, is re-engage people with their own humanity. Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger."


- Barbara Kingsolver-

6 comments:

  1. Yes, I'm with you on the theoretical stranger, but overall I think a challenging - if obvious - idea. I am a great admirer of Kingsolver's writing.

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  2. Thanks Dave - I must check her out!

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  3. Doesn't the stranger need to empathise with the writing?

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  4. Guess it all has to come together somehow Jinksy!

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  5. Humanity is good!
    " Stranger in the Kingdom" Howard Frank Mosher
    (and most of the other ones he has written.)

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