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The article comments on the book "The Art of Sympathy in Fiction: Forms of Ethical and Emotional Persuasion," by Howard Sklar. Topics include the conflation (or close comparison) of fictional and nonfictional narrative reflects an equivocation of fictionalities that appear to operate on discrete discursive (if not metaphysical) planes, and the accession of fiction's distinction as integral to the interpretation of sympathetic depiction.