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Ach ihr Zuckerhasen, es gibt keine Woke Bewegung. Es gibt nur Menschen, denen ist wichtig, dass sich alle am Tisch wohlfühlen. Und es gibt andere Menschen, die wollen bestimmen wer an den Tisch darf. Und damit sie ein Wort dafür haben, was sie so fürchten, nennen sie es woke.
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Words, unlike movies, are not a multisensory event. Words are symbols, and symbols don't work directly on the human senses. They work secondhand, through suggestions to the reader's imagination, through words describing what you saw in your imagination.
Elements of Fiction Writing - Beginnings, Middles & Ends
Nancy Kress
Adolfus’s boyhood friend August Kubizek relates how, when Adolfus was just sixteen, the two boys attended a performance of Richard Wagner’s opera Rienzi. For five full hours, the two friends gazed down from the cheap seats as the story of Cola Rienzi, the heroic Roman tribune of the people, unfolded in blasts of song. Afterward, exhausted and emotionally spent, the two friends walked the winding streets of Linz. ... The voluble Adolfus was oddly quiet. In silence, he led his friend up the Freinberg, a hill overlooking the Danube. There Adolfus stopped and grasped Kubizek’s hands. Trembling with “complete ecstasy and rapture,” he said that Rienzi had revealed his destiny. “He conjured up in grandiose, inspiring pictures his own future and that of his people . . . He was talking of a mandate which, one day, he would receive from the people, to lead them out of servitude to the heights of freedom.” Then Kubizek watched Adolfus walk away into the night.
The Storytelling Animal
Jonathan Gottschall
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