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Dreams are empty. They are an emptiness which needs itself, a need which in fulfilling itself empties itself out. Dreams are the undercutting action of desire. They undercut themselves infinitely to spin off new dreams in an endless slippage of desire. Look at any new advertisement. Read any new manifesto —
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H.E. Bates, The Modern Short Story, 1941, Nelson.
Victor Shklovsky, “Art as Technique”. Quoted by David Lodge, The Modes of Modern Writing (1977), himself quoting from Structuralism in Literature (1974) by Robert Scholes.
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Harrison, M.J. (1989). The Profession of Fiction. In: Jakubowski, M., James, E. (eds) The Profession of Science Fiction. Insights. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22143-1_13
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