The unimaginable creates the
need for art.
Reality as defined by physics and cosmology is
unimaginable, and art answers this mystery with the mania of beauty. And by
‘beauty’ I mean a visceral awareness of harmony and proportion in our intimacy
with the world. Beauty makes creative sense of reality, the irrational and
arbitrary indeterminacy of nature.
Beauty in fiction is
storytelling: human incident. In science fiction and fantasy literature, the
genres of my particular mania, beauty is wonder. Or wonder-telling.
Wonder-mania!
Wonder-mania participates with
reality at a deeper range than biology. It draws enthusiasm from the same
energy source that keeps electrons moving and not immediately hurtling into oppositely
charged protons in the nucleus of atoms. Art dreams us whole by intimately
interpenetrating our very real lives with fantasy. By which I mean that art connects
us at irrational depths.
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