"The point of writing and reading fiction is not to stay with the first thought or idea, nor the third or the fourth, but to push further until one says to oneself, Even though I haven’t thought through everything, I have brought myself as far as I can within my limited capacity." --Yiyun Li

SMsusiemesure.bsky.socialOct 16, 2024 5:15pm

"what afflicts literature, more than book banning, is this rapid loss of the ability to read for deeper meanings, to grasp subtlety, and to understand ambiguity." From this excellent essay by the always excellent Yiyun Li harpers.org/archive/2024...

The Seventy Percent, by Yiyun Li

On minor characters and human possibility

Yes! Also the point of writing and reading essays!