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There's knowledge and power in literature

Millions of educated people who enter and leave high school without having developed a love for literature - for great fiction - think that literature is all about stories.PHOTO: COURTESY

Millions of educated people who enter and leave high school without having developed a love for literature - for great fiction - think that literature is all about stories.

And for many of them, particularly students of natural sciences, the stories are so much ado about nothing, "tales told by idiots, signifying nothing”.

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