Tam
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“There’s a legend about a Chinese painter who was asked by the emperor to paint a landscape so pristine that the emperor can enter it. He didn’t do a good job, so the emperor was preparing to assassinate him. But because it was his painting, legend goes, he stepped inside and vanished, saving himself. I always loved that little allegory as an artist. Even when it is not enough for others, if it is enough for you, you can live inside it.”
— Ocean Vuong, from an interview with Zoë Hitzig in Prac Crit
“No wonder you didn’t like James Bond.”
“That was because the writing wasn’t any good,” Garak said dismissively.
“You know, the author was an intelligence agent during war. He could have written something more accurate if he wanted to, but he chose to go with the fantasy. That’s what most people like about spycraft, the fantasy of it.”
“They would be sorely disappointed.”
Julian smiled without humor. “We are.”
By Sapphose https://archiveofourown.org/works/30180087?view_full_work=true