Vajra Chandrasekera
Sri Lankan writer of fantasy and science fiction; the debut novel The Saint of Bright Doors (2023) won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best First Novel; also wrote Rakesfall (2024).
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Their wordsIt is a film deeply concerned that it’s too smart for you: it explains to you that it is a sapiosexual, actually. There is a visible concern that you might not be getting it.
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Their wordsA book, as a physical object, generally has no aura, as Benjamin described it, but the text does.
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Their wordsIt is the text, not the physical book, that makes the thing happen.
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Their wordsThe problem is that the experience is irreducible and there is nothing else to quite compare it to. What reading is like is reading.
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Their wordsIn reading, we do not break with reality: we are aware at the back of our mind that we are sitting and reading a book. We do not believe in the events of the book.