Catherine Bush

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I’m interested in this idea that you can experience these feelings of the other without having them “fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.” It is not that we experience the SAME feelings, as readers, that a character is going through. But kind of a copy of those feelings. Sympathy might be the experience of the SAME feelings. But empathy seems to provide a distance from the character’s feelings, experiences, thoughts. It is an authorial distance.

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