: Re: What are the things that only Stories can do? I've once heard in a youtube channel that only games could do things such as: getting the player into a flux state (something like getting into

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I sat, immersed, on that balcony. Swamped by the stifling humidity of the mediterranean air, of a summer going stale, but drowning in the book in my hands.

I had taken the only door out of the apartment where we were arguing and tense save the front door; a miniature escape without leaving. And there I had opened the book to escape myself.

What I found, what I read, was no escape. On the pages was another like me, another hapless self-involved man, removed from me by 150 years and thousands of miles yet closer than I could bear.

Raskolnikov was me, and I was repulsed by both.

Literature is the purest form of narrative, and narrative is the nature of the self. No film ever met me at my self, nor murdered my indulgences with an axe.

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