For me, it is all fiction. Criticism, film, philosophy are all different subjective interpretations of reality, perception, and truth. And it is all about how you compose and organize things; how you arrange them, how you weave things together, what you are choosing to put in, and what you are choosing to leave out, and all those decisions are always subjective, creative, and political....I think it is a lack of imagination if people don’t know what to do with a text unless a writer is constantly defining and simplifying it for them.
—Masha Tupitsyn
Enough time (Barnes)
But time...how time first grounds us and then confounds us. We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them. Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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