That's all well and good in the abstract. In practice, literary culture has long been notorious for cliqueyness and big egos (even narcissism). Affirming gener

That's all well and good in the abstract. In practice, literary culture has long been notorious for cliqueyness and big egos (even narcissism). Affirming general propositions of the form "just because X, Y is not necessarily true" is logically fine. It is just a bit odd to be using glittering generalities to defend, of all things, literary fiction (which is concerned above all else with nuance and particularity).