Expository books try to convey knowledge- knowledge about experiences that the reader has had or could have. Imaginative ones try to communicate an experience itself- one that thre reader can have or share only by reading.
If we must escape from reality, it should be to a deeper, or greater, reality. this is the reality of our inner life, of our own unique vision of the world. To discover this reality makes us happy, the experience is deeply satisfying to some part of ourselves we do not ordinarily touch.
If we must escape from reality, it should be to a deeper, or greater, reality. this is the reality of our inner life, of our own unique vision of the world. To discover this reality makes us happy, the experience is deeply satisfying to some part of ourselves we do not ordinarily touch.