The death of fiction

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I know, I know… but its pitch is a little different to most “end of” pieces. Its references are, however, distinctly British – Ken vs Deidre anyone?[1] – and given the nature of the piece, mostly from a generation back.

This line gives a flavour:

It might be too much to ask for something as enduring as a Hamlet, a Heathcliff or a ‘Hey Jude’, but there isn’t even a Mr Bean or a Mr Blobby – just a Bonnie Blue.

  1. I never watched that particular show, though I was once put up in its themed hotel in Manchester. I had no idea what any of the references meant. It was living in an episode of Twin Peaks. ↩︎

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This article from the Guardian, set as a discussion between Adam Curtis and Ari Aster about or around Aster’s film, Eddington, and Curtis’s new series, Shifty, is a interesting companion to the above.