A few wise words...

"The purpose of a literary work is the capture of consciousness, and the consequent creation, in you, of an imagined sensibility, so that while you read you are that patient pool or cataract of concepts which the author has constructed... The will is at rest amid that moving like a gull asleep on the sea."

Gass, Fiction and the Figures of Life, p. 32

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Freud explains why...