According to David Foster Wallace, literature is an exercise in empathy. For those who agree, is music similar?
David Foster Wallace was a talentless hack
>>74906036
>dfw
>>74906036
Yes. It is.
Of course, even more I'd say because of the effect music has on us compared to literature.
literature is something you do, though, whereas music is something that happens to you. I think overall lit is a logical empathy and mu is an emotional one
>>74906069
>>74906105
Need Attention
>>74907111
Do audio books "happen" to you, or to you "do" them?
>>74907143
Do you mentally process a scent? You're not clever.
>>74906036
Empathy is for pussies. I like shit that goes hard.
>>74907177
>Do you mentally process a scent?
You mentally process all senses. I'm not attempting to be clever, are you attempting to be an idiot?
Do you honestly think you do not mentally process music?
>>74907180
Your like, what, 12?
>>74907193
No, you don't consciously process a scent. Music happens primarily to the unconscious, literature happens primarily to the conscious.
>>74907180