I wrote a novel with 220k words(in chinese) to build a world which some people in there know they are in a novel.It's not unusual, you know, like the "breaks the fourth wall","meta-narrative" stuff. many fictions did that.only but I dug a little deeper.I start to think "how it works in our reality",if someone among us knows(or guess/assume etc) this is a fiction world,what will he/she do?compare to reality,it's bascily has 3 type of “high quality” reactions:1,trying to escape,back to reality——that's what most religious believers do,u know,like the whole "ascending to heaven through the Last Judgment" thing.or EVA like,or the so called "raise the dimension" thing.2,trying to refuse god(aka narrator\writer etc)come over the world,find ways to exile god. which is stop me from continuing to write this novel.3,bargaining,to make use of god,that's most chinese do:since I can't escape,can't completely exile you,and neither can I obey u,so let's do some cooperation.I thought a while here,fairly speaking,seems praying is another type of bargaining sometimes.if my character make me satisfied,I do like to reward him/her.inference:the real belivers shouldn't pray for anything specific,they should only accept everything what god descends.(what I called "low quality" reactions including numbness, disregard, suicide, falling into a crisis of nihilism, or anyother non-constructive and negative reactions)anyway,since I'm chinese,I chose to think option 2,which is how I can exile the god.it's not easy you know,since narrator/author is the god himself,how can I imagine my charactors exile me myself?how can they do that?so I wrote a novel with 220k words in chinese(did I metioned before?) to analyse,deduce it,and I got the answer!to emphasize:it's not in the easy ways,like you set up some specific settings to allow your charactors to against you,that's not the good way I satisfied.what I'm trying to do is to find out,in reality,philosophically speaking,if our world is totally a fiction,how to exile the narrator,and why it's possible or workable from philosophy perspectivein the very beginning,when this journey begins,I didn't know what the answer is,and when the answer emerges itself,it seems——I have to say——a kind of cliché.it's new,but cliché,more like reinterpreting some old concept with some new perspective.but I think it's still has some ground-breaking work,and somehow——I don't know——interesting.It's a kind of like establishing some philosophical theoretical framework.but in a literary way.
I finished my novel in 2025 late August,and I still feel weird,scary and crazy untill now——in some random times.because It's literally answers everyting,interprets everything,it can answer anything!(adding an "almost" here to show some strictness maybe?)like some philosophical problems are hard to answer,you need to go deep into those classic works,to understand them,and trying very hard(always fail),using some hilosophical terms to make your statement reasonable and clearly.but with my novel,no,I can answer them with some simple,easy-understanding sentences.and I do found some typical questions here in /lit/ to answer with my novel,to show you how it's possible.question 1.>>25271562>If Solipsism is true, why can't I (the solipsist) fly? It really makes no sense.my character asked exactly the same question.in chapter 29,she just wake up from a hypnotherapy(make you dream to cure some mental disease) and ask the doctor:"why I can fly in my lucid dream,but can't fly here?"the simple answer is:it's not your dream.so you don't control everything.but solipsists would argue:"isn't the whole world my dream?"-yes,but first you need to wake up in your dream to transfer this dream to your dream,like from a normal dream into a lucid dream.it's more like the difference between "believe" and "know",belive is not enough,you can never transfer your "belief" to "knowing".there is a eternal gap.but how?for example:my character thinks in the novel,but the nover readers clearly know he/she is not the real thinker,the real thinker is me,the author.(quote from chapter 43)so when the character in my novel knows he/she doesn't exist,it's all me,then he/she can fly in anyway he/she want.QEDI'll talk about my novel more tommorow if things go well.
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There was one about characters entering a painting and another with Clive barker doing something like that. The dark tower has some of that as well.
So it’s Tron and Last Action Hero
