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April 10, 2007
Why we read
"Imaginative literature is otherness, and as such alleviates loneliness. We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life."
-Harold Bloon, How to Read and Why?
Posted by lainey at April 10, 2007 12:10 AM