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Liza L. -

Surely you mean that associations like the Philomela example are not the *only* reason that literature is cool, but just one of the reasons.

For me, however, even just that one reason suffices. As it must. Because I am so generally clueless about literature.

And that notwithstanding that I am able to read literature in four different languages, including my native New York-ese.

(If it can be considered a language at all -- no matter how many linguists claim that New York-ese is quite similar to English in many respects. 😉)

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