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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

Susan Sontag
Exercise, Literature, Ability
Susan Sontag, Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (2003). “Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung”

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

Susan Sontag
Witty, Exercise, Men
"Notes on 'Camp'" by Susan Sontag, note 54, (p. 291), 1964.

Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.

Susan Sontag
Exercise, Tragedy, Analysis

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