Speaking with a colleague, I learned something interesting: The colleague said his brother had lived in the South [US] and the North. When he moved back South, he was beat up for being a Yankee. He moved back North and got beat up for being a Reb.
The irony and the telling made me laugh, but what if it had been told in detail? Then the humor would have become melancholy.
What we leave in, what we take out can change (manipulate?) a story's meaning. Propagandists take advantage of this, but it's also useful to writers.
APB-SAL is a blog about education, science, science education, fiction, science fiction, literature, literary stories, poetry, and anything else that strikes the blogger's fancy. NOTE: This blog interrogates art. It rarely make moral proclamations. For that attend the church or politician of your choice. This blog concerns aesthetics, not propaganda. Consider this as interviews with books where the interviewer presents interviewees, so you get what you need to do your own thinking.
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