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our interests, concerns, anxieties, and other needs of self-world situation.
9 George Saunders, "Sea Oak," Feeling Very Strange. The Slipstream Anthology, eds.
James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. Series ed., Jacob Weisman (San Francisco: Tachyon
Publications, 2006).
10 Ernest Keen, "Being Conscious is Being-in-the-World," Self and Consciousness.
Multiple Perspectives (see note 6), 48.
1 For example, bizarre, strange, or supernatural phenomena in literature may be real (i.e.
mimicking phenomena from the real world), but only in the sense that they are the delusions of
insanity.
12 Todorov, The Fantastic, 25.
13 Todorov takes as an unspoken, operative assumption here the idea of "our world,"
which is simply a sustained, self-culture, self-space, normalizing narrative.
14 "Clarity of perception and thought evidently requires that we be generally aware of
how our experience is shaped by the insight (clear or confused) provided by the theories that are
implicit or explicit in our general ways of thinking. To this end, it is useful to emphasize that
experience and knowledge are one process [italics mine], rather than to think that our knowledge
is about some sort of separate experience [italics original]. We can refer to this one process as
experience-knowledge (the hyphen indicating that these are two inseparable aspects of one whole
movement)." Bohm, Wholeness, 7. It is important to note that experience generated by literature
is the same as experience generated by real-world stimuli. They are handled by the same
processes, occur in the same experiential space, and are filed into the same negotiation of self.
Art is experience; it is not, as Bohm demonstrates, about it.58
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