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Time and Tide · 1941
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker argues that serious biography and fiction share one underlying subject: original sin, meaning a built-in human tendency to pick death when life was the better choice. It is a stern claim that writing about people is really an examination of moral failure and self-destruction.
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