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The only way to test a philosophical argument is by dramatizing it. Fiction is the superior medium. Only a pseud would say, "Plot doesn't matter," because its unity is precisely what structures that very argument.

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16713798

>>16713777
>dramatizing it

>> No.16714175

>>16713798
Yes.

>> No.16714206

>>16713777
Yeah, parables and stuff

>> No.16714213

>>16713777
Depends on the audience you are trying to convey your meaning to.

>> No.16714331

>>16714213
That's true, my Dad isn't good at metaphor and allegory. He couldn't understand that Da Vinci Code book and he told me and because I'm a bit of a cunt sometimes I didn't explain it to him, just told him that it's bullshit (which it is) and not to worry about it.