The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.
Interpretation
The fictive realm embodies boundless creativity and imagination, lacking clear demarcation.
This quote by Siri Hustvedt captures the essence of the fictive world, suggesting that the realm of imagination and fiction is expansive and fluid, where definitions and boundaries are not easily defined. In literature and art, the areas that explore human experience and creativity often overlap, inviting endless interpretations and possibilities without strict limitations.
In practice
This quote can be used as a discussion starter in a literature class about the nature of fiction.
Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed.
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.
I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.
under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves that night, as if we were other people looking down on the couple who lay together on the bed
People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.
Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.
I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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