Novels that behave are products. Sustenance refuses obedience.

Paratext becomes a warning. Prose swerves from rural realism to horror to uncanny SF. Genre bends until it snaps. Closure is denied.

Why? Because coherence itself is suspect. Literature should hand you grit, not smoothies.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/08/25/sustenance-experimental-reflections/

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