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Gerald So

Dec 14: Is it OK for a book to be purely entertainment, or must it have meaning or a lesson?

I suppose it's theoretically okay. Personally I don't see how one can entertain w/o meaning/significance. If something is meaningless, the audience doesn't need to pay attention to it. If they don't pay attention, it can't entertain them.

Gerald So

I distinguish meaning from lesson. Meaning is weight/consequence. Lesson is morality. I think one can entertain w/o moralizing.

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Gerald So

Some answer that all fiction is purely for entertainment, implying it matters less than "serious" things. This may be true, but stories need meaning in their own worlds if not in reality. If fiction has no meaning to itself, it has no appeal to readers. Stories are not mindless entertainment. They have beginnings, middles, and ends - structure that the audience expects will hold.

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