Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.
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Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel?
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel?
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel?
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel?
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel?
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel?
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