We suspect the necessity to escape the life or death nature of reality is an intrinsic evolutionary trait that enhances survival and replication. In Homo sapiens it can be autonomously manifested for better or worse.

Here van Doren and Adler make a seductive suggestion, a deeper, or greater, reality. In this context they mean, “This is the reality of our inner life, of our own unique vision of the world.” Specifically ‘great works of literary art.’
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