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On Precious and why stories need to be told
Lee Daniels’ critically lauded film Precious is, in an Aristotelian framework, a comedy.
It is about the rise in fortune of a lower class individual who the audience finds sympathetic – and it has a happy ending [had Aristotle's commentary on Comedy survived we'd no doubt have more to work with, but that's about the best we've got].
Of course, [...]
Walls and apricots
Once upon a time, there was a wall. The building of it was one of the biggest undertakings in human history. The story of this wall defined a nation, running through it both metaphorically and literally.
Once upon a time, there were people who, from a distance, watched a great wall rise, fall, and rise again. [...]
Story. Telling.
I have, of late, been questioning my motivations as a writer. This does not stem from an existential crisis – which, in itself, is unusual for me – or a particularly harsh rejection note, but rather the way I have been looking at writing and writers, and at what I have been reading. This, no [...]