It's insanity. Absolute lunacy.
I shouldn't.
Nothing can explain my infatuation with people that exist on paper. There is nothing rational about actually caring for a character that I know from the very outset is a figment of imagination. Jane Eyre was the first literary character I ever cared for. Intellectually towering over my sixth-grade self, I got scared with her and for her and recognized her faults as mine as she served as truly beguiling company on damp afternoons. Ever since, I have turned to judging books by the strength of its characters. I want to know about their coffee-stained teeth, their uncontrollable habits and the reason for their slouch.
Conclusion:
Some day, aliens will find me crying over Kathy in Wuthering Heights while not giving a poor beggar change at the traffic signal, and that alone will be warning enough not to land here. Or to wipe humanity off the map.
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These aliens will have to understand something very important about us before they can make that decision. To paraphrase Dumbledore, "Just because something does not exist, does not mean it is not real." And that is not even a contradictions.
In his memoirs Jean Paul Sartre describes spending hours absorbed by his encyclopedia fascinated by all the colorful descriptions of flora and fauna,only to have all his wonder dissolve the day he first visited the Luxembourg gardens and saw how IMPOVERISHED real plants and animals were in comparison
I so identify with your post:-)
I find pleasure in reading those books where I relate to the character, where I can make images of the character in my head, where the story does not remain a story, but a reel inside my head, animated, brought to life.
Yes, character strength and its portrayal are one of the essential components that make a fine read.
If aliens saw that, then you won't be the only one to scare them off. I am with you.
*a contradiction.
But seriously, WHY is that spaceship so cool-looking? :D
Arumugam, haha, that's a great anecdote. I totally sympathise with Monsieur Sartre, I was reading an elaborate and unintentionally complex description of the human kidney in our textbook and when I actually held one in my hand, I was flummoxed by what an elegantly simple structure it was.
I second Tangled Up In Blue. That is one cool spaceship.
I love when you do posts on reading. It connects on so many levels.
Real life characters can be equally poignant. Alas, you can't get to know them fully without burning yourself first...
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