People · 1977
What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
— Toni Morrison · Song of Solomon
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The question challenges the importance of deciding whether a feared thing is real. Its phrasing puts the experience of being scared ahead of that distinction. It suggests that fear can matter to the person feeling it even when its object is uncertain.
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