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Compassion, empathy, and reading

This is interesting, in light of our discussion last week on compassion, empathy, and reading:
 
“In that sense, literature is Eucharistic. You take somebody else’s suffering into your body and you’re changed by it, you’re made larger by their pain. You come to understand pain in a way that maybe otherwise you wouldn’t.” – Mary Karr (via pegsix)