I'm not saying that fiction has the magnitude of an earthquake, but when we are reading a good novel, we leave our small, cozy apartments behind, go out into the night alone and start getting to know people we had never met before and perhaps had even been biased against.
フィクションと地震が同じ重みという意味ではありませんが 優れた小説を読むと 心地よい住居を後にして 一人で夜の街にくり出し 今まで知らなかった人たちと出会い始めます 偏見の対象だった人とさえ 親交が生まれるかもしれません