cheever-fiction-philosophy

August 1, 2025

Fiction is meant to illuminate, to explode, to refresh. I don’t think there’s any consecutive moral philosophy in fiction beyond excellence. Acuteness of feeling and velocity have always seemed to me terribly important. People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

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Thought:

“I hate these phrases: Of power absolute,

Of full authority, Full proper motion.

The divine laws they have trod under foot —

And human too — for private man’s promotion.”

Joshua Sylvester | from the French of Guy du Faur de Pibrac

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