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| Author: | panicroom [ Fri Oct 02, 2015 5:22 pm ] |
| Blog Subject: | Living in a bubble. Part VIII. |
§8. It is of course a strange thing to let literature affect oneself so very much. If I am reading a short story by Bradbury and am allowing it to make a decision upon whether I should live or die, I have clearly passed way beyond sane living. I might have the feeling the “the rain has come”, but I should be able to hold this experience at a certain distance. And I think I can. But, I must admit this, the feeling of happiness certainly stayed with me. I could not at all refrain from enjoying the story by referring to sound thinking. And this leads, in conjunction with a thought raising from a glance upon my reasoning as a whole in this blog, to a question which is almost equally big, and which certainly requires great strength to take on. Namely this: “Would you ( I am referring to myself ) be able to reason about a bubble-person the way you do without having to think of all the books you have read?” or :”What does literature has to do with it? The bubble is a problem even to completely illiterate humans!?” OK, I am a bit shocked by this attack, I must say. It seems to me as if someone ( someone inside of me ) is trying to say: “ Alas! Away with literature! There must be a solution to the Problem of the bubble, no matter if we are talking about analogies or crap like that. There is a substance behind words.”. This objection is fair. More than fair. It points at something quite necessary to deal with. But it has come far too early in my discourse. First we must try to sort out what kind of bubble millions of people are living in. We could only do so by introspection ( as we have concluded ) and since this is the case we ought to take whatever help is offered. And here literature is of great help. I am referring to great authors who themselves almost certainly were suffering (?) from Asperger’s, like Flaubert, Wittgenstein and Kafka. Let us take a closer look on these to try to investigate the nature of the Bubble. I will start out with Flaubert. |
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