We express ourselves, create new worlds, interpret the world where we currently live, be it real or imagined, prove the existence of ourselves or others, explain the mundane and esoteric to the rest of the world or explain the simple in large enough and long enough words and ideas so as to make the simple and logical into that which is incoherent and random and only understood by those whose time is spent within the confines of coffee cups and smoke-filled rooms staring at computer screens while the invasion comes from be . . . umm . . . I digress.
We write so that others may be enlightened, be it Spider-Man or international politics or Goodnight Moon. Were you entertained? Did you learn anything? Is your life better or worse for having read the written word? Were you able to better understand the world around you when you put down the book or were you able to escape for a while to a better place? Sometimes that is all we can hope for.
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