Terry Eagleton Quotes

The Imagination Is Also Sometimes Commended For Offering Us In Vicarious Form Experiences Which We Are Unable To Enjoy At First Hand. If You Can't Afford An Air Ticket To Kuala Lumpur, You Can Always Read Conrad And Imagine Yourself In South-East Asia. If You Have Been Monotonously Married For Forty Years, You Can Always Lay Furtive Hands On A Copy Of James Joyce's Letters. Literature On This View Is A Kind Of Supplement To Our Unavoidably Impoverished Lives - A Sort Of Spiritual Prosthesis Which Extends Our Capabilities Beyond Their Normal Restricted Range. It Is True That Everyone's Experience Is Bound To Be Limited, And That Art Can Valuably Augment It. But Why The Lives Of So Many People Should Be Imaginatively Impoverished Is Then A Question That Can Be Easily Passed Over.

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