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14645197 No.14645197 [Reply] [Original]

Is a difficult novel just a series of koans, or is it one long koan? What happens to the mind and the brain when a koan or multiple koans are uploaded? Neuroplasticity? Growth, emotional and/or spiritual? Does reading difficult novels /do/ something to us? If so, what? More importantly, do difficult novels get easier the more you read them? If so, why?

>> No.14645253

brain like muscle.
move heavy thing with brain, brain get big to move heavy thing easy.

>> No.14645429

>>14645197
You can think of some novels as having koan quality but they are mostly fairly useless. Yes, you will get better at reading and analysing them the more you do it, but the utility to this is doubtful.

>> No.14645513

>>14645429
Why are you on /lit/ if you feel that reading has little utility? Just for the sake of literature?

>> No.14645570

>>14645513
art with utility is just propaganda

>> No.14645890

>>14645570
as it should be