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Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course a truly volatile issue in teaching memoir or the personal essay, because there's no pretense that the narrator is a character.

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Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

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Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

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I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

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For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

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My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

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I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

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