Science, so the story goes, delivers us a world bleached of taste and texture, purged of value and feeling. The task of literature then is to restore to the world its plundered body, redeeming it from the reductive schemas of the technocrats.
So it came to pass that scientists like Heisenberg or Schrödinger can be dismissed as dull, uncreative souls.
Science deals with the actual, while fiction trades in the possible; and in the bleak conditions of nodernity/post modernity , the subjunctive (relating to or denoting a mood of verbs expressing what is imagined or wished or possible) is always likely to trump the indicative.relating to or denoting a mood of verbs expressing what is imagined or wished or possible
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