Logic is not used to communicate with another person’s temperament. Art, including fiction, is for that, as Joseph Conrad explains:
Fiction - if it at all aspires to be art - appeals to temperament. And in truth it must be, like painting, like music, like all art, the appeal of one temperament to all the other innumerable temperaments whose subtle and resistless power endows passing events with their true meaning, and creates the moral, the emotional atmosphere of the place and time. Such an appeal, to be effective, must be an impression conveyed through the senses; and, in fact, it cannot be made in any other way, because temperament, whether individual or collective, is not amenable to persuasion. (Quoted from the Preface of The Nigger of the “Narcissus,” by Joseph Conrad, R. Kimbrough ed., page 146. W. W. Norton & Co. 1979.)
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