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Originally Posted by Strether
You're in good company. In Darwin's Recollections he talks about having lost his love of good music and poetry because his mind seemed to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. And then says "On the other hand, novels, which are works of the imagination, though not of a very high order, have been for years a wonderful relief and pleasure to me, and I often bless all novelists. A surprising number have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily--against which a law ought to be passed. A novel, according to my taste, does not come into the first class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love, and if a pretty woman all the better."
Jim
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I rate a good novel higher than most things, and there are few things I enjoy more, but perhaps they are junk food for the soul
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Helen