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crooked-vonJune 9, 2021

If the survival of a single person is "high stakes" in fiction, then what do you even consider "low stakes"?

> I admit I'm limited to the sample I've experienced personally but it's over 90%.

You need to read a wider selection of books, then. Try, say, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, Of Mice and Men, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, A Christmas Carol, The Grapes of Wrath, The Time Machine, Dune, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Foundation series, anything by Ray Bradbury... there's a very long list of books that are not driven by simplistic good vs. evil conflicts.

throwaway83291onAug 15, 2021

Anyone reminded of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath?

According to Wikipedia [0], the eponymous expression occurs in Chapter 25, "which describes the purposeful destruction of food to keep the price high:"

> [A]nd in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath

b3moralesonMay 23, 2021

This is oversimplifying in the opposite direction in my opinion. The important thing is not the letters, it's how they manifest -- the way they're interpreted as instructions. So the objection is to taking a paragraph of Ulysses and putting it into The Grapes of Wrath. Or even better, selecting a step from the middle of How to Build a Birdhouse and inserting it into the directions for crocheting a tea cozy.

If properly chosen, it could certainly have a beneficial effect. But DNA is also a much more complex system than a book.

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