ballard-excitement

October 14, 2025

We’re desperate for excitement of some kind. That’s the drawback to living in an entertainment culture — the entertainment begins to pall after a while. It’s like spending too long at a theme park — you begin to long to get out of it. And when you realize that there’s nowhere to get out to, that it’s all like this, that the theme park now circles the planet and that’s all there is — that makes for desperation.

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“A passage of fiction is not an account of something that might once have happened in the visible world; it is not even an account of something that could conceivably have happened in that world… Such issues are irrelevant; a passage of fiction reports his or her contemplation of what did happen or what did not happen or what might have happened or what can never happen.”

Gerald Murnane

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