{"id":1616,"date":"2021-12-15T16:01:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T00:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2021-12-15T16:01:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T00:01:52","slug":"a-brief-remark-on-objective-reality-does-not-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/a-brief-remark-on-objective-reality-does-not-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief remark on &#8220;Objective reality does not exist.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world may objectively exist but our encounter with it\u2014<em>in whatever way<\/em>\u2014fictionalizes it.<\/p>\n<p>From most books on writing the novel, you will find that dreams are taboo. \u201cDo not go there\u201d is the general advice.<\/p>\n<p>No one ever asks what novel the dream would write. Truth be told, all dreams are incipient novels.<\/p>\n<p>Dreams, of course, are the focus of endless analysis, but analysis does not write novels, is not interested in this potency, always turning the dream into something else\u2014to be generous, perhaps this too a fiction.<\/p>\n<p>James Walton has reviewed Keith Ridgway\u2019s new novel <em>A Shock,<\/em> titling his review, \u201cEverything is Fiction,\u201d in the December 16 edition of <em>The New York Review of Books<\/em>. Read it. Then read Ridgway. Then read your dream.<\/p>\n<p><em>ral<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world may objectively exist but our encounter with it\u2014in whatever way\u2014fictionalizes it. From most books on writing the novel, you will find that dreams are taboo. \u201cDo not go there\u201d is the general advice. No one ever asks what novel the dream would write. Truth be told, all dreams are incipient novels. Dreams, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}