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I Am Madame Bovary

“Cat Person” and the dark pleasures of empathy

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by Anastasia Berg

? (2018). I Am Madame Bovary. The Point, 16, pp. 129-136

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The “kind of person” Robert is—and by extension “the kind of person” anyone can be on this account of what it means to correctly read another person’s character—lies hidden behind a mass of unreliable pieces of evidence. But no matter how much sympathy this “mirage of guesswork and projection” elicits from us, the real person is nothing but the worst of his sins. And sinners don’t deserve our pity.

on cat person. i like this against-the-grain take

—p.131 missing author 5 years, 11 months ago

The “kind of person” Robert is—and by extension “the kind of person” anyone can be on this account of what it means to correctly read another person’s character—lies hidden behind a mass of unreliable pieces of evidence. But no matter how much sympathy this “mirage of guesswork and projection” elicits from us, the real person is nothing but the worst of his sins. And sinners don’t deserve our pity.

on cat person. i like this against-the-grain take

—p.131 missing author 5 years, 11 months ago