If I hadn't experienced it, I would doubt the power of literature. If I hadn't read David Copperfield, and I just listened to the experts and read Bleak House as the best of Dickens, I would have thought, this isn't that great.
Or, if I hadn't read The Idiot and Demons and read The Brothers Karamazov as the best that Dostoevsky has to offer, I wouldn't have been that impressed.
But I know from experience that there is fire and magic and food in literature. There is something real in it. So, all the teachers and experts are right that there's something to this, but not necessarily right about what that is.
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