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8 Apr 2020 Conversations with Tyler Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar
“Exactly. But what I realized, in buying Contagion, was — which I haven’t watched yet; I came to my senses — there’s just such a longing in times of uncertainty to see how it ends.”
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- 8 Apr 2020
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…So you’re like Franz Kafka, too. Exactly. But what I realized, in buying Contagion, was — which I haven’t watched yet; I came to my senses — there’s just such a longing in times of uncertainty to see how it ends. We just don’t know what the world will look like in three weeks, so there’s something soothing about narrative in these moments. But that was the only way I could rationalize that impulse purchase of that movie on my part. There was an article in The Guardian a few days ago that, at least in the United Kingdom, sales of long classic fiction were up by a considerable amount. Does that make sense to you? Is that how things should be?…
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