 Another aesthetically important question about the emotions is this: why are we attracted to representations and other devices that generate negative emotions such as sorrow and fear? It is not a satisfactory answer to this question to make the suggestion referred to above that we do not really fear Dracula and other creatures of fiction but merely quasi-fear them, because fear and quasi-fear are supposed to be qualitatively the same, so if fear is unpleasant quasi-fear is also. The question can be asked about both narrative works and about music; recall that even Kivy grants that (non-canonical) musical listening may generate sadness. However, fiction has been the greater part of this discussion, and will be here also. On this issue philosophers have tended to take one of three positions (but see Smuts 2009 for a wider range of options):