How fiction makes us better people
- Break out of bubble and learn new perspectives
- Vicarious experiences
- Definition of identity, empathy
- Fiction requires relinquishing identity
Stories are life-saving, “you dream it as you tell it”, they allow time and space to converge at a single point, the present.
Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There’s magic in that. It’s in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. — ^61784c
Maybe it wasn’t just the constellations who needed stories. The stories were necessary for everyone. — ^ref-64435
Every sentence had a different meaning to the interpreter. — ^ref-57535
No one had the same story. Everyone lived a different history and understood things using different contexts. — ^ref-62975
“Just like what you said earlier, the author of the novel probably didn’t think about stuff like this. However, it is up to you to decide on what you’ll get out of reading the novel. If you only find trash within, then it’ll simply end as trash. But if it can impart just a tiny little bit of deeper meaning to you, then that alone will improve this work in your eyes. — ^ref-44153