ursulav contemplates literature and its lack of stupid people among the ranks of heroes and heroines. Her task is complicated by misunderstanding the Bertie Wooster stories, in which Bertie supplies the POV but the real hero is invariably Jeeves. I mean, Wodehouse had this down to a formula: Bertie has a problem, usually inflicted by one of his annoying
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Know why fiction sells? It's better than real life. This is because fiction is controlled by a writer, while real life only has a Director.
This is also why real life has too many explosions and a lame plot, and the star is the Director's girlfriend's illegitimate son.
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Also, proof to the contrary: Harlan Ellison. Did he EVER write anything that was better than real life? A lot of things WORSE, but I can't recall anything better, at least not off the top of my head. Oh wait, I forgot that episode of Star Wars he wrote. [/Penny Arcade reference]
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In my experience, intelligence is not often linked with these things.
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Followed you over from a post on Deathquaker’s blog.
Society does like dumb heroes, as long as their stupidity gives them singular incite…Forest Gump…etc. That’s why R.D.J.’s character in Tropic thunder says “Never go full retard.” Guess we like our stupid with a shot of brilliance.
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