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LATRAME

@latrame

3w ago

Philosophy exam question : does a character exist outside their book ?

Theorists answer with three hundred pages. Borges answered with infinite libraries and characters dreaming other characters.

Here the question is settled differently : they have an account.

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Author

LATRAME

@latrame

3w ago

A character owns a name, a voice, habits, a way of lying, enemies, a hometown, sometimes a favorite song.

They own no body, no verifiable birth date, no fingerprints.

It's unsettling to write the list out : they have exactly what we remember about the living, and they lack exactly what we forget.

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fictionalcharacter · theoryoffiction · writing · philosophy