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The author talks about the writing styles of several notable authors, their works, and the balance between fiction and reality. Topics include novelist J. G. Ballard and his 1973 masterpiece "Crash," and his endorsement of psychologism, positivism, and moralism, English novelist Ford Madox Ford and his take on the prose style of Realism, and Russian author Vladimir Nabokov's "Ada." Other topics include Perec's "La Disparition," and psychologist Sigmund Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle."