Jacob Szymanski

This is kind of another magical property of literature.

And that's that new books sometimes have this quality that they feel like they've always existed.

It feels like that for classical literature.

I'm thinking of like Shakespeare and Moby Dick, you know, Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, these like eternal classics that feel like they've always existed.

They just feel like they feel like myths is what they feel like.

They're almost detached from their authors.

This can happen with newer titles as well.

I've read books that have come out in the past five years that I feel like it just feels like they've existed for forever.

And I can't explain it.

It's a magical property.

Do you know what I mean?

It takes a radical type of empathy to have that skill, to hear people and truly understand their perspective.

It's very difficult to understand their perspective.

And this ties into one more feeling I have to describe when reading really good writing.

And that's that quality writing...

puts words to feelings that you've never been able to express that you've felt but you've expressed before and there's something so satisfying to putting words you've only felt not expressed before it's got this like tip of the tongue sort of feeling where you know it but you can't really describe it and you've

There's something satisfying.

It makes you feel intelligent and it makes you feel like you're learning something that you've known deep inside.

And there's no better feeling than coming across those sorts of descriptions.

Red, I want to thank you so much for your time.