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- From: sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Theme ~ Moral
- Message-ID: <BxIBnM.4G7@unx.sas.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 15:42:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.065900.28476@nwnexus.WA.COM>, elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg) writes:
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- | I'm not going to shirk my feelings for the sake of a "good" story.
- |"With great power comes great responsibility," "The highest human value
- |is personal responsibility," "Everything in human experience is
- |negotiable," "Free will is good," "Technology is inherently the tool of
- |people, neither good nor evil in its own right," and so forth... these
- |are _my_ beliefs, and no 'protagonist' of mine is going to argue
- |against them. Not only would I not respect myself in the morning, but
- |I doubt I could convincingly write such a story.
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- This an interesting outlook. I find I tend to write stories in which I
- disagree with the moral outlook and personal philosophy of some of the
- characters--as often as not, the protagonist. The protagonist of my
- novel, REMOTE CONTROL, is a violent, manipulative, and self-righteous
- bigot. I think writing these stories is one way I have of coming to
- terms with the fact that most people don't agree with my own
- philosophical viewpoint, even though it is patently superior. :)
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- --Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC | sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
- Hellenic poet of the same name. |
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