Would ~ say ~ plunging into works of fiction, and making it a major preoccupation on the day-in-day-out level, only perhaps serve to bring one face to face with too many of the "truths" about "reality" contained therein (assuming the fiction was of sufficient quality and dealt in essential realities of the human condition)?
Originally posted by FMFSo are you talking about religion?
Would ~ say ~ plunging into works of fiction, and making it a major preoccupation on the day-in-day-out level, only perhaps serve to bring one face to face with too many of the "truths" about "reality" contained therein (assuming the fiction was of sufficient quality and dealt in essential realities of the human condition)?
Originally posted by JS357No. Not really. I had novels in mind. I am not much a consumer of them myself, preferring non-fiction. I've often wondered what it would be like to take a year out and read good novels full time. Three a week? Sixteen a month? Two hundred in the year? What effect would it have on one's relationship with "reality"?
So are you talking about religion?
Originally posted by FMFFor example, as you crawled out of your reading cubby hole and went shopping at the supermarket, would all the observations about the way people are ~ that the novels had filled your head with ~ have enhanced your understanding or appreciation of the "reality" or possible realities of the people you encounter, and even affect your interactions with them or the impressions of those interactions that you take away with you, etc.?
What effect would it have on one's relationship with "reality"?
Originally posted by FMFYou really do think people are that weak, don't you?
For example, as you crawled out of your reading cubby hole and went shopping at the supermarket, would all the observations about the way people are ~ that the novels had filled your head with ~ have enhanced your understanding or appreciation of the "reality" or possible realities of the people you encounter, and even affect your interactions with them or the impressions of those interactions that you take away with you, etc.?
That explains much. Sort of.