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According to David Foster Wallace, literature is an exercise

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