4) And "what does it matter even if novels and plays ARE what shape people's ideas most?" Yes, who cares about the truth, after all (as there's no Truth, we can write that, say, Edmund Burke was raped by his grandmother and be happy with it). Who cares about the French revolution? Who cares about real people and real ideas? We just want to have fun, like Coppola's Marie-Antoinette.
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Date: 2009-10-18 06:31 pm (UTC)