Posted by Eric Abraham on October 10, 2009 at 12:47:40 user EricAbraham.
In Reply to: Re: E. Nesbit (was: Writing in the first person) posted by John Lambert on October 09, 2009 at 21:48:26:
" - - - this was the purpose of literature - to help us feel what we could never know on our own."
An absolutely incredible summation of why we read! And a lot of people belittle "book learnin'" as being irrelevant to any "real" experience - just more of the anti-intellectualism of our culture.
Thank you, John Lambert!!!