If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world then the positive valences – where things turn out better than you thought they would – ought to be in there somewhere too.
I had never had a positive leading character – somebody that wasn't an antihero or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of.
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I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.
