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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
For me the distinction (with a very blurred dividing line) is about what Literature does with language. It uses language in a way that makes me look/read twice. It does something new to language that draws my attention to it and gives me a new perspective on it. It presents me with sentences that make me gasp - be it due to their images, their rhythm, their musicality; that resonate in me on levels that great music or great painting can. The joy is more than intellectual.
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If there must be a literary distinction, I can get behind that one.
