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John Gardner, On Writers and Writing, p. 225:
. . . at their best, both fiction and philosophy do the same thing, only fiction does it better — though slower. Philosophy by essence is abstract, a sequence of general argument controlled in its profluence by either logic (in old-fashioned systematic philosophy) or emotional coherence (in the intuitive philosophies of say, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard). We read the argument and it seems to flow along okay, make sense, but what we ask is, "Is this true of my mailman?" . . .
Fiction comes at questions from the other end. It traces or explores some general argument by examining a particular case in which the universal case seems implied; and in place of logic or emotional coherence — the philosopher's stepping stones — fictional argument is controlled by mimesis: we are persuaded that the characters would indeed do exactly what we are told they do and say . . . . If the mimesis convinces us, then the question we ask is opposite to that we ask of philosophical argument; that is, we ask, "Is this true in general?"
John Gardner on Fiction and Philosophy
Shakespeare is at the heart of English-speaking civilization. The Bard was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, which is about as far inland as you can get in his “scepter’d isle.” Today, Stratford is a center of global tourism. Its shrines of pilgrimage are not the theater where the Royal Shakespeare Company perform his plays, or even Stratford’s pubs and tea rooms. They are the homes that Shakespeare knew, and in which his wife, mother and daughter lived. Enter these Elizabethan time capsules, and you see Shakespeare in his place.
