As Percy Shelley wrote, art “purges from our inward sight the film of familiarity which obscures from us the wonder of our being”…Only great art, removed from the chaos of everyday life and the burden of fulfilling immediate practical desires, can present those life-truths with a vivid clarity ordinarily inaccessible.
—Joshua Fagan, Founder and EIC of literary speculative-fiction publication ORIONS BELT.
Founder and EIC of literary speculative-fiction publication Orions Belt has published a thoughtful essay in the July 2024 issue. Become a patron to get full access here
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