knowledge. They want to learn and understand things from other points of view. Literature allows people to do all of that.
(How else, as toddlers, could we learn something as complex as the language we’re hearing?) Myth-making is in our nature. It’s part of who we are as human beings. What this means in practice is that we instinctively make mental shapes, patterns, from everything that goes on around us. As babies, we are born, one philosopher said, into ‘a great blooming, buzzing confusion’. Coming…
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