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The beginning of the 21st Century can rightly be referred to dually
as the Age of Creative Writing and the Age of the Zombie. We
might wonder if the two share a connection. By creative writing
I am of course referring to the acts and actions of human beings,
writing creatively. By zombie I am referring to the animated corpse
that, despite its various laudatory and memorable appearances in
numerous popular movies – the longing zombie, the lost zombie,
the homemaker zombie, the comedian zombie, the loving zombie,
the insatiably thirsty zombie, the child-like zombie, the friend
zombie – is bereft of consciousness, beyond any further ageing, and
essentially no more human than a gatepost.
Our recent enthusiasm for creative writing and our enthusiasm
for zombies have been so thorough and so strong that it is a surprise
there has not been occasional flesh-dripping protest against
these, even outright pitchfork-defying revolt. Those working in
academe might well admit to not being above some creative
writing and zombie profiteering. Again we can wonder: is there a
connection between these two things?
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