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- Title: Ten Questions for Lucy Corin (Interview)
- Author : Valerie Vogrin
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 49 KB
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1. I am both amused and delighted by the fact that apocalypse is defined, among other things, as both total devastation and revelation. Are these concepts related in your mind? Well, I'm wondering about their relationship as I draft this little book I'm doing. I am drawn to the fantasy of wiping the slate clean to start over "fresh" but I am also highly suspicious of it. It's a way of getting out of the hard questions--of avoiding things in the largest way. F**k it all let's start over--but let's start over with me. I leap to that fantasy exactly when things get hard--the escape hatch of the largest possible perspective. "Ah, well, maybe next life ..." At the same time, that imaginative movement is the movement of fiction--and it's also the movement of something like empathy--reaching out of your own perspective. Calling your own perspective into question is a highly moral act, the highest moral act I've encountered (battling for that top spot: just doing something good for someone else because you can). Devastation /revelation is also a major mechanism of learning; revelation is of course about change, overturning, like revolution. So think of the aftermath of Katrina--the glee certain people/groups felt that maybe now they could build a utopian city--but whose utopia? Nothing is actually all new--because of history, because there is no new time--so in real life certain people's--powerful people's--imaginations win out. When apocalyptic thinking is internal, it's rich and beautiful, but enact it in real time with real people and it's just about as f****d up as you can get. The beauty and danger of the apocalyptic is that it's an imaginative space that is free to disregard other people, and I find that urge really fascinating.
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