Re: Is fiction important?
Just a world about fiction been useful mention by Jayaprakash.
When registering for the taxe in france i had to join an organization called "the house of artistes" and the criteria's to belong to it was not creating useful things.Comming to the conclusion that art in general in not.A counter definition of sort.
This is the border betwin craftmanship and art.Art as not practicality,a beautiful painting,a great novel will touch you,but they have concrete use.
This got me wandering for years,trying to find a flow it the reasoning.
But it is not because something is unpractical that it is unimportant.Dropped on a desert island i'll choose a knife over the best novel in the world.But my brain would slowly die without the exercice and joy that a book offers.
Many people live without music and books,their life is closer to animal form of humain been,not less,just more primal,which sometime is'nt bad.
(I hope i made some sense)
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