To introduce the scenarios, we offer brief outlines showing the key interventions (fictional but plausible) that set further developments in motion.
But it shares with the Richardsonian epistle the power of seeming to grant direct communication with a fictional character, with no apparent intervention on the part of the true author.
This isn't just a wacky thought experiment; this is the real-life 2015, in which it's impossible to formulate any kind of political thought without the intervention of some fictional wizards; a world teetering on the edge of non-existence, where it's impossible to tell whether pregnant women dying in airstrikes is a good or bad thing unless we can find out what Dumbledore thinks of it first.
This isn't just a wacky thought experiment; this is the real-life 2015, in which it's impossible to formulate any kind of political thought without the intervention of some fictional wizards; a world teetering on the edge of nonexistence, where it's impossible to tell whether pregnant women dying in airstrikes is a good or bad thing unless we can find out what Dumbledore thinks of it first.
These actions recall the stunts of Earth First! in its opening decade, as well as the Dada-inspired street-theatre of early Greenpeace and, perhaps, some of Hayduke's more moderate interventions into Abbey's fictional desert world.
In Ten Days (Canongate), Gillian Slovo uses riots in a fictional London borough, provoked by a racially contentious police intervention, as the basis for a thoughtful dramatisation of the increasingly tense dynamic between the powerful and the disfranchised.
A medical realism approach to creative writing, combined with creating and then repeatedly writing about the same fictional character, offers the potential for a low-cost intervention in a safe and convenient environment, which can potentially help to increase the empathic ability of students.
One trade association ran a famous ad campaign featuring the fictional couple Harry and Louise voicing concerns about the dangers of government intervention.
The RNs at T1 on the intervention ward were found in their answers to frequently underrate the fictional patient's perceived pain intensity.
A bystander intervention presentation for arriving freshmen at Wesleyan University last Thursday — "We Speak We Stand" — featured students acting out fictional episodes of campus sexual violence, harassment and problematic drinking, with examples of how to intervene.
