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We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy’s impossible. But if a piece of fiction can allow us imaginatively to identify with a character’s pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with our own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple.

- David Foster Wallace, from “A Conversation with David Foster Wallace,” by Larry McCaffery.

7th February 2012
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