The fetishization of literature as an empathy-generation process both overvalues empathy as a mode of understanding and undervalues literature, which rather than just creating empathy is the art form of interiority. You can gain more than empathy from direct contact with the interiority of another
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Rob Palk
I like fiction and don't always trust people, but am confident that if an old man was stabbed in a room where no one reads fiction at all, a FTSE100 company, say, or a university, people would still get up and help ffs
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