The 'value' of literature

Relate this article to the one I put up in the previous posting. It's from the Straits Times Forum Page. The letters from the Forum Page are written responses to articles or other Forum Page letters published in the papers; in that sense, they are not unlike ur Paper 2 AQ, as they are written in response to specific views from an earlier text.
Note the oft-quoted phrase that we 'know the price of everything, but the value of nothing'.

Sample qn: 'The arts have no purpose other than to amuse and entertain.' Do you agree?

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