Sunday, August 11, 2019
Leslie Jamison quoting John Irving about the usefulness of sentimentality.
"In a 1979 op-ed called “In Defense of Sentimentality,” John Irving examines the legacy of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, stressing the importance of what he calls “Christmas risks”: earnest attempts to articulate pathos without cloaking it in cleverness or wit."
- Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams
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