So, in Finland, I have only domesticated contemporaries. Name-dropping would have been fun, though. I am convinced that the different military, information, and entertainment technologies that already exist or are presently under development will transform both audiences' literary expectations and the very concept of literature. For example, I believe that the asymmetrically forking paths of Borges and Coover can hardly seem contrived if you happen to be computer literate. This also gives me cause to consider the nationalities of mass culture.
Nature features in the role of a friend or an enemy or both.
We should rather be talking about my degeneration. Everything you say can be used as identity against you. This, of course, is a perspective, a simplification, and a privilege, nurtured by the partially attained ideals of the Scandinavian welfare state. Packaged in a form favoured by the publishers, such fiction combines the infantile ideas of truth, authenticity, and honesty that are shared by untalented writers and a voyeuristic audience. But they end up producing basket case histories.