Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
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Why do we make heroes high status in the real world and relatively low status in the world of serious fiction? What accounts for that demarcation? I think that there is, it's as though high culture fiction is a kind of a culture of its own with its own set of values. And those values consist among many others of complexity and also a great privileging of the intimate,. The person in front of you, the humanness of individual humans.
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