Re: Fiction Advice 12: Show & Tell/ On Evil

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From: Elizabeth Willey
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:03

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"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy,
monotonous, barren, boring.  Imaginary good is boring; real good is
always new, marvelous, intoxicating.  `Imaginative literature,'
therefore, is either boring or immoral or a mixture of both."
				---Simone Weil

See also Hannah Arendt on the Nuremberg Trials, for more illuminating
thought on evil.


Elizabeth Willey

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