“Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.”
Honoré de Balzac, Le Père Goriot

Take the Balzac quote above as your provocation to reflect on the reading uploaded.The reflection can take any form, as long as you are able to connect the quote to your practice and experience of reading the piece in question.The assignment will test how as a reader you have taken responsibility to experience the intensities that the piece as generated in you.