{"id":55043,"date":"2018-01-27T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T00:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=55043"},"modified":"2018-01-25T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T11:16:00","slug":"beschrijven-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/beschrijven-3\/","title":{"rendered":"beschrijven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A novelist&#8217;s business is lying. All they&#8217;re trying to do is tell you what they&#8217;re like, and what you&#8217;re like.<\/em> <small>\u2013 Ursula K. Le Guin<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist&#8217;s business is lying.  [&#8230;] All they&#8217;re trying to do is tell you what they&#8217;re like, and what you&#8217;re like\u2014what&#8217;s going on\u2014what the weather is now, today, this moment, the rain, the sunlight, look! Open your eyes; listen, listen. That is what the novelists say. But they don&#8217;t tell you what you will see and hear. All they can tell you is what they have seen and heard, in their time in this world, a third of it spent in sleep and dreaming, another third of it spent in telling lies. [&#8230;] Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has ever trusted its artists? [&#8230;] Apollo, the god of light, of reason, of proportion, harmony, number\u2014Apollo blinds those who press too close in worship. Don&#8217;t look straight at the sun. Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysios, every now and then. I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. Psychologically defined, a symbol. Aesthetically defined, a metaphor. <!--- The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrodinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future\u2014indeed Schrodinger's most famous thought-experiment goes to show that the \u2018future,\u2019 on the quantum level, cannot be predicted\u2014but to describe reality, the present world.  <small>\u2013 Ursula K. Le Guin ---><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novelist&#8217;s business is lying. All they&#8217;re trying to do is tell you what they&#8217;re like, and what you&#8217;re like. \u2013 Ursula K. Le Guin Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/beschrijven-3\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[474,2455,2452,2454,2453,1871,1859,2456,2457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55044,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55043\/revisions\/55044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}