If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere too.
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth....
I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for...
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
