soracities:Andre Dubus, “After Twenty Years”, Broken Vessels: Essays[Text ID: “I have always known t
soracities:Andre Dubus, “After Twenty Years”, Broken Vessels: Essays[Text ID: “I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad. Only the privileged - those with homes and food and the luxury of time in a home - are touched, moved, sometimes changed by literature. For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy. What do stars look like on a clear cold winter night, when your children are hungry, are daily losing their very health; or when, alone, you look up from a heat grate? Of course in cities at night you can’t even see the stars.”] -- source link
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