The limit of 'show, don't tell' is high order thought. The first thing one learns in philosophy is that one says a certain concept in certain words, saying something in other words is saying something else.
The reader tends to view serious thought in a piece as business, maybe character development. Yet, Victor Hugo's essay on architecture and the printing press placed in media res of The Hunchback of Notre Dame is worth more, intellectually, than the rest of the book.
High order thought in fiction is relegated to a role best exemplified in Robert Pursig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, schizophrenic blather, which is true in the main of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, the noise of a febrile brain.
I have penned a short story of some 8k words which includes high order thought almost as another character in the piece. Try reading it as having dramatic legitimacy and tell me what you think on my Amazon author's page....
Kindle Digital Press
The Other Side: The Bisbee Blues
http://www.amazon.com/author/johnfrazier
The reader tends to view serious thought in a piece as business, maybe character development. Yet, Victor Hugo's essay on architecture and the printing press placed in media res of The Hunchback of Notre Dame is worth more, intellectually, than the rest of the book.
High order thought in fiction is relegated to a role best exemplified in Robert Pursig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, schizophrenic blather, which is true in the main of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, the noise of a febrile brain.
I have penned a short story of some 8k words which includes high order thought almost as another character in the piece. Try reading it as having dramatic legitimacy and tell me what you think on my Amazon author's page....
Kindle Digital Press
The Other Side: The Bisbee Blues
http://www.amazon.com/author/johnfrazier
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