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Like art, writing can easily be considered abstract. Just looking at the huge amounts of science fiction and fantasy writing, including stories like the Bible or common fairy tales. Someone had to think up Trolls, Elves, Dragons, the concept of Gods, and all the other mystical magical things that go into these stories. This also goes for science fiction - even though much of the work is based off what we have now (space travel, internet, etc.) sci fi constantly takes it to the next level, pushing the human imagination.  I feel like in comparison to Walt Whitman, who is merely describing the world around him with pretty words, these stories go out and describe something that may not be real and for a second make you believe thats all true.  Theater of the Absurd also is very abstract, it reminds me of the Pollack works we looked at in class.