The story is the thing itself. Greater than the sum of its parts. When a story works, theme arises interstitially like harmony, and you are convinced because of the story’s spiritual truth and internal logic.

“Theme” isn’t something you can break out and isolate, it’s a layer of meaning that depends on the whole. An attempted theme that fails to convince because of errors elsewhere is like a legal defense that fails on the facts.
“Oh my defense was great, I should have won—if only I had the right facts. Shut up about the facts of the case!”

My friend, you lost.
What these people see dimly is that some minor inconsistencies or logic errors can be forgiven. But not if they 1) affect the ‘argument’ of the story’s internal logic, and/or 2) build to a critical mass that the story no longer seems ‘bound’ to our own lives.
By bound to our lives, I mean along the specific lines the author chose to reflect reality. I’m not sure it would be possible to write a completely disembodied and unidentifiable story—although Samuel Beckett tried.
You know—by giving you a character, an individual to follow, a name, a description, or giving you a social structure recognizable AS a social structure at all, even if the details are imaginary. These make fiction identifiable to us. Even weirdest sci fi offers this much.
You can effect various techniques to edit your work and try to head off any plot holes that will torpedo the delicate harmony of your work, but it’s actually an extremely complex proposition. This is why excellent and transcendent work is so rare.
But the better lodestar is the truth you see in the story. Understanding that well FORCES you into the right choices more reliably than you can pick them based on theory. Theory is more successful on how to present them.
I’ve quoted Horace before saying that the point of poetry is to delight AND instruct. Well, shouldn’t the instructor be in a position to teach? The great author must be committed to truth. not in a cliche way, but an honest committed interest in the story.
You certainly can’t be using subject matter you actively resent with an ulterior motive. People will know instantly.

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@franciscodeasis https://t.co/OuQaBRFPu7
Unfortunately the "This work includes the identification of viral sequences in bat samples, and has resulted in the isolation of three bat SARS-related coronaviruses that are now used as reagents to test therapeutics and vaccines." were BEFORE the


chimeric infectious clone grants were there.https://t.co/DAArwFkz6v is in 2017, Rs4231.
https://t.co/UgXygDjYbW is in 2016, RsSHC014 and RsWIV16.
https://t.co/krO69CsJ94 is in 2013, RsWIV1. notice that this is before the beginning of the project

starting in 2016. Also remember that they told about only 3 isolates/live viruses. RsSHC014 is a live infectious clone that is just as alive as those other "Isolates".

P.D. somehow is able to use funds that he have yet recieved yet, and send results and sequences from late 2019 back in time into 2015,2013 and 2016!

https://t.co/4wC7k1Lh54 Ref 3: Why ALL your pangolin samples were PCR negative? to avoid deep sequencing and accidentally reveal Paguma Larvata and Oryctolagus Cuniculus?

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