"Against Dryness" —
"Against the consolations of form, the clean crystalline
work, the simplified fantasy-myth, we must pit the
destructive power of the now so unfashionable naturalistic
idea of character.
Real people are destructive of myth, contingency is
destructive of fantasy and opens the way for imagination."
— Iris Murdoch, January 1961
"the now so unfashionable naturalistic idea of character" —
"Thunder only happens when it's raining,
Players only love you when they're playing."
— Song lyric. See as well the previous post.