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...target walked towards him armed only with single shot guns, head swiveling madly to try and spot a possible assailant. Bursting through the door, Hetzler met Malott with a spray of darts. But in what Keller Rinaudo '09, a member of the winning team, described as a "Pulp Fiction moment" all the bullets missed Malott, leaving the two combatants standing shocked in the hallway. Not bothering to shoot back, Malott turned and ran. Great marksmanship indeed. On second thought, does ROTC even want Harvard students? They can't shoot straight anyway...
...film, which will be screened this Saturday in the Carpenter Center, focuses on the experience of a young woman who loses her vision as she develops an obsession with John F. Kennedy ’40. Seeking to explore the boundaries between biography and fiction, Bethel created a fictional character comprised of elements of Popkin’s own life. The girl in “Fell in Love with a Dead Boy” is suffering from a blindness-inducing cancer; as a freshman in high school, Popkin was also diagnosed with a form of cancer...
...Harvard giving a lecture to the Center for Ethics. I chose to speak about exactly this. I spoke about what the responsibility of the writer is. I mentioned, during that lecture, how surprised I had been by the personal ramifications, the human ramifications of writing fiction. It carries with it remarkable implications in terms of what your responsibility is towards people who are investing a lot of emotion in your stories...
Well, maybe my previous responses have been a bit cavalier. Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus. If you look at music, do we expect all composers to write dirges? The answer surely is no. There are many other emotions and moods which music can deal with or engage with. And similarly with art. With painting one would expect that there are some which are dark and gloomy and threatening and other...
...when it comes to literature, there's this curious argument put forth by an extraordinary amount of people that fiction must always dwell on difficulties, and if you write about a situation without dealing with all the difficulties that are attendant on the particular time or place you're writing about, that you're somehow not doing your job as a writer. That seems to me to be an extraordinary argument. My Botswana books are positive, and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think...