“ There may be some views of the world and how one should live in it––views, especially, that emphasize the world’s surprising variety, its complexity and mysteriousness, its flawed and imperfect beauty––that cannot be fully and adequately stated in the language of conventional philosophical prose, a style remarkably flat and lacking in wonder––but only in a language and in forms themselves more complex, more allusive, more attentive to particulars."

    -Martha C. Nussbaum on Narrative Fiction