RE: Ramblings and One-Offs: The Reality of a Fictional Creation
I agree with you. Actually, I tend to like the term "faction" rather than "fiction" for a lot of literature written. I think one of the main advantages of literature over film is it allows the reader's mind to take the pieces, supplied by the writer, to create the "reality" of the writing. Film has a tendency to show you one person's (or a team of persons') take on the "reality" of the story. Literature allows the reader to do that instead.
Even though it may not be the best film made, I thought Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was great because both the director and the actor Johnny Depp were able to recreate the "reality" of that book in a very similar way to how my mind created the "reality" of the story when I read it.
Don't worry, feel free to write what you want. I like it. It's your post. "Reality" for most of us is a series of one-offs; at least, rambling is a lot of what I do in my existence. I suspect that's true for the vast majority of us.
Thanks. I always liked that movie despite its flaws, plus it is before Johnny Depp became a walking parody of himself.
This is an issue that I covered often when I was studying literature in college and it can make for some interesting interpretations. I particularly like applying it to Paradise Lost because it does some weird stuff to the way one can view that poem. I can't remember how many times it happens without looking at my old notes but Milton refers to God as an author something like 10 -15 times. When you start viewing Milton as "God" in that poem, a lot of the lies Satan tells (particularly, in Book Five) become these really cleaver deceptive truths and the whole narrative starts to be far more subversive than it already is.
Milton is an interesting guy, if you can get past the Early Modern English he writes in but that is a different topic.
I haven't read Paradise Lost for decades. Maybe I'll download a copy from Gutenberg.org and read it again before I'm too senile.
Haha yeah it isn't the type of thing one goes back to again and again. I actually like Milton's sonnets a little better. His prose works are really great too but they are not an easy read. He had some really progressive ideas for his time on things like censorship and a few other topics, though and that gives his work a lot of value.