“What’s your name,” Coraline asked the cat. “Look, I’m Coraline. Okay?” “Cats don’t have names,” it said. “No?” said Coraline. “No,” said the cat. “Now you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.” Neil Gaiman, Coraline
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“Cats don’t have names”
Posted in Fiction, Literature on December 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Reading the Great Books in Tehran
Posted in Books and reading, Fiction on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every great book we read became a challenge to the ruling ideology. It became a potential threat and menace not so much because of what it said but how it said it, the attitude it took towards life and fiction. Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran, pg. 289
The Epiphany of Truth
Posted in Fiction on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. Azar Nafisi
L.B. Graham on “Christian” Fiction
Posted in Art, Fiction, tagged arts, Christianity, Fiction, moralism on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Christianity is not about moralism, and Christian fiction shouldn’t be either. Christianity revolves, not around good behavior, but around God’s mercy shown to man in the death and resurrection of Christ. . . . I’m constantly surprised at how often fictional stories are judged to be Christian or not, based more or less on how [...]
