A nice idea, but probably wrong: the point of fiction is to capture what we sort of know but don't…

… we also think the world through their thoughts. As the literary agent Dorian Karchmar has put it, “[F]or readers to understand and experience points of view that are not their own . . . is sort of the whole freaking point of fiction.”
Can Reading Fiction Make You a Better Person?
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A nice idea, but probably wrong: the point of fiction is to capture what we sort of know but don't really know and reflect it back to us.
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