FICTIVE INTELLIGENCE, Understanding the World by Reading Fiction, and LIBRARIANS

A couple of years ago I was asked to write a few lines about the importance of reading. I wrote this:





Reading a book is a direct injection of inspiration.




Reading shapes brilliant minds. It gets your brain throbbing and your heart racing.



It can bring you a thousand years of experience in a few pages.




Reading means bigger laughs, deeper feelings and a peek at the secrets of life.



We understand the world through stories. What we read makes people make sense.



I found myself thinking of t...