In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. To have read Gulliver's Travels is to have had the experience of listening to Jonathan Swift, of learning about man's cruelty to man. To read Huckleberry Finn is to feel what it is like to drift   down the Mississippi River on a raft . To have read Byron is to have suffered his rebellions with him and to have enjoyed his nose--thumbing at (......) society. To have read Native Son is to know how it feels to be frustrated in the particular way in which Blacks in Chicago are frustrated. This is _ communication. It enables us to feel how others felt about life, even if they lived thousands of miles away and centuries age. It is not true that "We have only one life to live." If we read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. According to the author, reading good literature   _  .
produces new income is quite useless satisfies the curious opens new worlds to us