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1. "Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on." ~ Jonathan Gottschall
2. "We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories." ~ Jonathan Gottschall
3. "Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape." ~ Jonathan Gottschall
4. "Like Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence, authors trick readers into doing most of the imaginative work." ~ Jonathan Gottschall
5. "Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story will evolve, but as storytelling animals, we will no more give it up than start walking on all fours." ~ Jonathan Gottschall
6. "Fiction is usually seen as escapist entertainment...But it's hard to reconcile the escapist theory of fiction with the deep patterns we find in the art of storytelling... Our various fictional worlds are-- on the whole-- horrorscapes. Fiction may temporarily free us from our troubles, but it does so by ensnaring us in new sets of troubles-- in imaginary worlds of struggle and stress and mortal woe." ~ Jonathan Gottschall

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They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace."What a curious name!""Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly."
Author: C.S. Lewis

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