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In all imaginative writing sympathy for the subject is necessary not because it is the politically correct or morally decent posture to adopt but because an absence of sympathy shuts down the mind: engagement fails, the flow of association dries up, and the work narrows. What I mean by sympathy is simply that level of empathic understanding that endows the subject with dimension. The empathy that allows us, the readers, to see the "other" as the other might see him or herself is the empathy that
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― The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
― The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
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Time to face the facts. This pattern of inserting myself as the narrator between scenes, so that I can burden you with endless rants that no one needs to hear, has an ulterior motive. I've been exploiting my narrative position to hoodwink readers, using this first-person narrator to infuse the work with idiosyncratic nuance. I was arrogant enough to think that I could be the first Japanese author to employ such a sublimely Western style. And yet, I failed. But no, even this confession of failure
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― The Flowers of Buffoonery
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
Welcome to a space for lovers of love… in audio form. Whether you're swooning over a slow burn, …more
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Join us on March 1, 2014 for a discussion with author Lars Guignard & audiobook narrator Sonja F…more
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You ever hear a voice that you think "oh I'm going to need him to read this to me?" Welcome to t…more
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