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Public Record
Compilation notes.

Section A:
An overemphasis on the importance of interest.

The most difficult task I faced when creating this compilation was in determining how to begin it. Ultimately, I decided that it should begin where all things do: interest. I feel that that a movement can be described by the persons in it, and persons can be described by their interests. Interest took on a new importance at the turn of the ERA. Psychology found a sudden interest in interest, which spurred a nationwide shift in how the society would view education, careerism, and art.Freeform Fiction grew out of a larger artistic era called Post-Historic Art.

In general, Post-Historic artists felt it impossible to reach an audience whose interests are divide amongst an infinite sea of content; they heard about nothing but interest, they saw little evidence of Public Interest in their works. Many Post-Historic artists created works that dwelled in the mundane—a decisive aversion to competing for readers’ attention. Content delivery companies like Frē tended to dictate artistic success, because they determined which content was delivered to which audiences. Artists outside of these platforms tended to only be discovered by accident.Before Freeform Fiction, Post-Historic literature varied in styles and types, and failed to find any unique voice. Among them, however, the poet Ruth Crimson-Forde stood well above. Although Ruth died before the first work of Freeform Fiction was published, it is by no means an exaggeration to say the movement never would have existed without her work. Her poetry resonated with many authors of the following generation, who went on to create Freeform Fiction. Her work is dispersed throughout this compilation in kind.

This first section includes selections from my most successful novel, A longitudinal case-study into motherlessness. As one might guess from its title, the book was very heavy-handed. However, this was the first example of Freeform Fiction on the Public Record, and as such it is a good example of the beginnings of the movement. I will preface it with the fact that it certainly isn’t my best or favorite work – if anything I only see it for the things I had yet to learn – but I feel it is a good introduction into the genre and its founder.

Samson Manoah