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Originally Posted by beppe
I hope that condition is not so critical. Like meaning that when I started reading i did not know what would leave meaningful traces in me.
If I follow that hunch that I do not know nothing and that my path has been a series of fortuitous turns (opinion shared by a number of people that had and have dealing with me), than knowing little means that i learned little. Easy out.
But if I look more closely, I get the impression that all that I know of the important things of life I learned by reading fiction. I mean narrative in a wide sense.
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A very nice post, beppe, and interesting examples
The condition: "... that you hadn't expected going in?" I interpret to mean that you didn't sit down with the book with expectations of learning something specific, like you do with non-fiction.