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Chekhov’s Dissonance

Observation: Chekhov’s gun is to fiction as cognitive dissonance is to life.

(The above probably needs to simmer for a while to reduce into something pithier, but I think the recipe is right.)

(Emerged from an extremely lengthy ramble about a larp game I played on the weekend, which the foolhardy among you can find here.)

Posted on April 19, 2012April 25, 2013Author morgueCategories And also, WritingTags living, psychology, Writing6 Comments
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