sanctified the originals. In other words, we appreciate art in the context of a story attached to the physical object. Or, indeed, to a performance. People pay hundreds of dollars to see Joshua Bell play the violin in a concert hall, but 1,000 people passed him in that subway and he made only $32.In fiction and the movies, [Paul] Bloom argues, something similar applies. We love the back story that connects us to the writer. "In stories," he says, "it matters for everybody that they believe they are experiencing something in the world that really did happen or that sprang from a creative imagination."
from Bryan Appleyard: The Sunday Times: How pleasure works
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