i think great literature should move you to the point that, like, you are almost absent of response. And i do think o em and some of em take more thought to get you there. I stopped reaing because it became, towards the second half of the book, it became just not the same thing. It is not like aginas, nice, sen imental wis just somebody who was dare sayng, you know, sometimes i made some tough decisions too,. But as a whole, i don't, i don’t,you know, i stopped reading. Ind is heart me.
In his memoir of his time in Auschwitz, Primo Levi describes Jewish prisoners bathing in freezing water without soap--not because they thought it would make them cleaner, but because it helped them hold on to their dignity. For poet and author Dwayne Betts, Levi's description of his fellow inmates' suffering, much like the novelist Ralph Ellison's portrayal of early twentieth-century black life in America, is much more than bearing witness to the darkest impulses of mankind. Rather, Betts tells EconTalk host Russ Roberts, both authors' writing turns experiences of inhumanity into lessons on what it means to be a human being.