On the Greatness of Literature
Literature is great if through it I experience for myself the joy and sorrow of its characters, and thereby know of the love I have for them, or if it taps into some deep longing of my heart. Without this, a story is only fun or interesting, not great.
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But that very greatness through which we too become ripples in the pools of empathy gathers energy from those paddling away from the mundane.
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