Artspeaking topic
In the theater an actor truly weeps on stage, and the audience weeps too, yet everyone knows it is a play. Why do we shed real tears over what we know to be a lie? Does art move us so freely precisely because we know it is not real?
— aesthetic distance and the paradox of fiction
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