Today's debate question

[Paul Mackin]

Second rate, anyway, to English departments sick of seeing all the glory
thrust upon physics. chemistry, biology, and even economics.

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 4:57 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Proposition: That reading by identification with a character condemns the
> reading to be second-rate most of the time. The major reason: it reduces
> the sensibility of the writer, whose sensibility is supposed to be richer
> than ours ( most of the time) but which at least is Other than ours....
>
> To ours. The vaunted empathy is crippled; the genius of observation and
> imagination is lost. The reading is ultimately solipsistic.
>
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