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Would have, would have. The dead dwell in the conditional, tense of the unreal.
Because it’s all about the rhythm, you said. Good sentences start with a beat.
If reading really does increase empathy, as we are constantly being told that it does, it appears that writing takes some away.
They don’t commit suicide. They don’t weep. But they can and do fall to pieces. They can and do have their hearts broken. They can and do lose their minds.
What we miss—what we lose and what we mourn—isn’t it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are. To say nothing of what we wanted in life but never got to have.
