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When I first heard your voice, my heart leapt in my chest as if it recognized you as its owner from another lifetime

When I first heard your voice, my heart leapt in my chest as if it recognized you as its owner from another lifetime

When I first heard your voice, my heart leapt in my chest as if it recognized you as its owner from another lifetime. (Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons)

Only two possible reactions to the mimetic contagion exist, and they make an enormous difference. Either we surrender and join the persecuting crowd, or we resist and stand alone. The first way is the unanimous self-deception we call mythology

Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic aloneness, and endow us with the tools to understand our humanness. Reading about the lives of other people acquaints us with the hardships of other people. The authorial voices of narrative prose express our shared feelings of deprivation – Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

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