Your brief reflection on fiction/reading in general helping you learn about the world around you as a ND person was so thought provoking! Never thought about it from this perspective before. I think the only ‘classics’ that I have read through choice since school were ones where I had already seen the film adaptations. And as much as I feel like puritans might gasp at that, it helped me to keep up with where the story was going when I was reading prose that was arguably very old fashioned and quite tricky to follow sometimes.
Your brief reflection on fiction/reading in general helping you learn about the world around you as a ND person was so thought provoking! Never thought about it from this perspective before. I think the only ‘classics’ that I have read through choice since school were ones where I had already seen the film adaptations. And as much as I feel like puritans might gasp at that, it helped me to keep up with where the story was going when I was reading prose that was arguably very old fashioned and quite tricky to follow sometimes.
Can definitely relate to this. Have seen lots of the film and TV adaptations and sometimes briar has prompted me to dip into the texts.
Glad to hear I’m not the only one!