--- In [email protected], "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@...> wrote: > > Regarding fiction, I used to enjoy it and read every book > by some well known authors, Hemingway, Steinbeck and Hermann > Hesse for example. Then I reached a point where I saw that > for me, certain assumptions needed to be made about reality > in order to appreciate fiction. Since I could no longer make > such assumptions, I stopped reading fiction.
So you're saying that realization -- or enlightenment, if you prefer -- had the effect of you no longer being able to identify with anyone who had a different view of reality than you do. So much so that you can't even enjoy fiction written by such deluded people. Did I get that right?
