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Can fiction really change the world?
Excluding works of fiction that are widely read as nonfiction (e.g. The Book of Mormon), of course.
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Literature can't change nothing, it's useless. But so is life
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>>9411750
Yes, when life and people immitate it. Borges talks about this often in his short stories. We can shape reality, but unreality can shape us.
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>>9411750
I threw a copy of Infinite Jest quite hard at my father, but it missed and hit the TV instead. It certainly changed my world that day.
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Only if it's memes.
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>Excluding works of fiction that are widely read as nonfiction (e.g. The Book of Mormon), of course.
But those are the best fictions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountains_of_Kong
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