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	<title>Comments on: Background Essay for &#8220;Science Fictional, Medicinal&#8221;</title>
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	<description>Med Student, Novelist, Essayist</description>
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		<title>By: Sam Harrison</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sam Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description>http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health_medicine/4303407.html

thought of you when i read this -- fodder for the imagination</description>
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<p>thought of you when i read this &#8212; fodder for the imagination</p>
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		<title>By: Jack Kincaid</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jack Kincaid</dc:creator>
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		<description>This made me think of something I wrote, long ago, in a long-gone entry and a long-gone blog.  I was talking about horror fiction, but I think one could just as easily remove the &#039;horror&#039;, leaving it at simply &#039;fiction&#039;, and it still holds.

&quot;It has always been my belief that a function of horror fiction, beyond entertainment, is to examine all elements of the human condition for the sake of gaining meaningful and objective perspective on them, including its darkest particles from which other kinds of writing turn away or dare not peer at too closely. Horror The Brave. Be it directly or by way of supernatural metaphor, it is among its noble purposes in society to address the tragedies and atrocities that befall it at all scales and, through narrative demonstration and insightful frames of character perspective, enhance understanding in how these things come about; all of this: done in the devout hope that through the broadened awareness furnished by the reading experience, such things may be averted and be solely inherited by the realm of fiction.

Thereby ... making the world a better place.&quot;

I&#039;m getting that vibe from you.

Also, you might want to fix the formatting of that entry.  Some of it spilled at the beginning there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This made me think of something I wrote, long ago, in a long-gone entry and a long-gone blog.  I was talking about horror fiction, but I think one could just as easily remove the &#8216;horror&#8217;, leaving it at simply &#8216;fiction&#8217;, and it still holds.</p>
<p>&#8220;It has always been my belief that a function of horror fiction, beyond entertainment, is to examine all elements of the human condition for the sake of gaining meaningful and objective perspective on them, including its darkest particles from which other kinds of writing turn away or dare not peer at too closely. Horror The Brave. Be it directly or by way of supernatural metaphor, it is among its noble purposes in society to address the tragedies and atrocities that befall it at all scales and, through narrative demonstration and insightful frames of character perspective, enhance understanding in how these things come about; all of this: done in the devout hope that through the broadened awareness furnished by the reading experience, such things may be averted and be solely inherited by the realm of fiction.</p>
<p>Thereby &#8230; making the world a better place.&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m getting that vibe from you.</p>
<p>Also, you might want to fix the formatting of that entry.  Some of it spilled at the beginning there.</p>
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