“The diagram above may look like something out of an antiquated high school geometry book, but it’s actually a depiction of human consciousness by the late 19th century New Zealand psychologist Benjamin Betts. According to i09, Betts applied mathematics to the problem of visualizing the waking mind, producing a series of striking images in the process.
Though the images seem at first abstract, i09 notes, if you spend enough time studying their contours and curves, it’s possible to imagine how a meta-physicist might make perfect sense out of one state of consciousness behaving like a deep bowl and another like a narrow, endless funnel.” - Smithsonian Magazine
Fabulism, while it’s the name of our youth exploitation company, is also a guiding principle of this work and our stories lying within.
“Fabulism tends to defy any direct definition. Fabulism, in essence, is the act of defying any genre constraint. The term has its fairytale and fable roots, and yet it continues to cause confusion when someone uses it to describe a story. Perhaps the most general of definitions would be, “where literature gets weird.”
If one desires something more specific, fabulism can be traced out as a narrative that contains magical realism, slipstream, science fiction, horror, and/or surrealism as traits. The best fabulist narratives tend to blur the line between one or more of these traits. At the center of fabulism is mystery. Readers are attracted to and therefore read a fabulist tale because they want to know what it is. The defiance of clear definition is a clever choice to stand tall and let the story speak for itself.” - Early Bird Books
