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Originally Posted by Max Cairnduff
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Fiction is the closest thing to telepathy we have, it contains not literal truth but truth for all that, or sometimes delight in artifice, or shifting truths and fantasies, or things I lack the skill to name. It's full of worlds, by entering them we enrich our own, and ourselves too.
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Empathy. Each of us a world.
I think of writing as distinct from other arts in that it's made exclusively of language. It being the basis for our shared understanding of the world we, and the worlds others, inhabit.
(As much as I'd like to extend the thought, here and elsewhere, I have to devote my attention to a different sort of reading for now, of financial markets and the economy. Sorry. I'll be back.)