the answer to my question about how to write a book about immigration now

[cosmolinguist]

Thank you, The Paris Review

The creative impulse is such a fragile thing, but we have to create now. We owe it to ourselves to do the work. I want to encourage you. If you aspire to write, put aside all the niceties and sureties about what art should be and write something that makes the scales fall from our eyes. Forget the tired axioms about showing and telling, about sense of place—any possible obstruction—and write to destroy complacency, to rattle people, to help people, first and foremost yourself. Lodge your ideas like glass shards in the minds of everyone who would have you believe there’s no hope.

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Slightly tangential

[miss_s_b]

Watched Supergirl today. Martian Manhunter tells the President (who is played by Lynda Carter) that she shouldn't give people false hope. She replies: "it's hope, J'onn, how can it be false?"

Legit cried my eyes out at that.

Why can't 70s Wonder Woman be president in real life? Hell, reading this I'd vote for her in a heartbeat.