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Many scholars forget … that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. … very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit.
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Keller says we enjoy great literature through sympathy more than analysis. Scholars' laborious explanations rarely stay in memory. The mind lets them fall like overripe fruit from a branch, a gentle jab at scholarly over-explaining.
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