"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."

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"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."

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"And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

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"Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse of a hideous sea monster, all beaks, eyes and tentacles. They were further astonished at its size, since it was rather larger than their village. But their surprise was tiny compared to the huge, stricken expression on the face of the dead monster, which appeared to be have been trampled to death."

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