Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.
I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.
Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.
I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.
We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.