thread: 2011-10-17 : Going Into Darkness
On 2011-10-18, Marhault wrote:
"The future, in fiction, is a metaphor.
A metaphor for what?
If I could have said it non-metaphorically, I would not have written all these words, this novel; and Genly Ai would never have sat down at my desk and used up my ink and typewriter ribbon in informing me, and you, rather solemnly, that the truth is a matter of the imagination."
I read The Left Hand of Darkness in high school. I can remember fuck-all about it aside from this quote from the author's introduction which has stuck with me. This is what art is all about.
