We
live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising,
advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant
translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the
increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of
consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative
response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an
enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less
necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The
fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.
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