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:

“Are you sure this is what the pure day

with its standing light intends?“

John Ashbery

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