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I think the best description I read is that it's like being an ant, except suddenly, for a brief moment, you comprehend what it's like to be a human being.

But then you go back to being an ant, and you remember being human, even though it doesn't make sense to you anymore, and you obsessively tell all your ant friends about it.

Basically, there are things we just should never know.

He was racist and his writing is infected by it, but at the very least he's no longer here to profit off of his works, unlike contemporary morally repugnant authors. I fully understand if you would prefer to pass, of course.