Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

  • -- Barbara Kingsolver 芭芭拉?金索佛

小说和散文可以为理论上的陌生人创造同理心。

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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

同理心其实是精神吝啬的对立面。这是理解每一场战争的输赢的能力。别人的痛苦和你自己的一样有意义。

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

鉴于外部现实是虚构的,作者的角色几乎是多余的。他不需要虚构,因为小说已经存在了。

Empathy is full presence to what's alive in the other person at this moment.

同理心是对此时此刻对方身上的活力的充分展现。

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

科幻小说的方法是解剖和重构。