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Okay fine, I blame myself. I am not well-read due to sheer laziness. I’ve grown intellectually lazy, ignorant even. Sure I read lots and lots of blogs and non-fiction, but I know that fiction is important: it is the only way we can climb inside the imagination of another human being, combine it with our own experiences, biases and beliefs, and create something that is simultaneously uniquely individual and shared with everybody else who reads it. We form a deeper understanding of ourselves, others, and humanity through fiction. Sounds hokey perhaps, but I’m totally not shitting you that I believe all of that to be true.

It was lovely. I love few things more than a conversation with an intelligent person who is passionate in their beliefs and willing to disagree with me.