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Published · transcript-backedEmily St. John Mandel: belief
8 Apr 2020 Conversations with Tyler Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar
“” I don’t think it’s quite as severe as any kind of disassociation syndrome, but it is this idea that plays at the back of my mind sometimes. So I think that absolutely comes out in my fiction.”
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- Emily St. John Mandel
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- belief
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- 8 Apr 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…From what writer or source do you think you get those emphases? Or it just comes from your personality? I think it comes from my personality. Sometimes the world can seem, not quite unreal, but somehow improbable. You can look around at your life . . . Speaking for myself, I can look around at my life and think, “This seems implausible. ” I don’t think it’s quite as severe as any kind of disassociation syndrome, but it is this idea that plays at the back of my mind sometimes. So I think that absolutely comes out in my fiction. In Station Eleven, as you know, an airport serves as a museum of civilization. If we had an airport as our museum of civilization, what is the biggest bias we would come away with, trying to understand our civilization? Say you’re born in that airport. You’re homeschooled in that airport. What’s the biggest thing you get wrong?…
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