Youtube.com metal gear solid 5 review1/30/2023 It does what it says on the tin: the story is about a teenager playing Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Which is the feeling I got when I read Jamil Jan Kochai’s phenomenal short story “Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain” in this week’s issue of The New Yorker. “They wish they could live as purposefully as fictional characters constructed around all-consuming psychological motivations, but not enough to change their lives.”) The best fiction - the best narratives - on the other hand, get close enough to the real thing that they feel alive, a living and breathing thing. (As Nell Zink wryly observes in her latest piece about translation: real people don’t work backward. Narratives lie because they make sense out of the nonsense of everyday life they’re always retroactive. It’s not meant to be, really, because the form is a reflection.
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