Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
You must fill your mind with the invented images of the past: the more the better…These images, apart from anything else, will help you put the two and twos of life together…the nearer you will creep to the great blazing beacon of the Idea which animates us all. (Weldon’s "The City of Invention", p. 15)
What can a reader infer about the importance of reading literary fiction according to author Fay Weldon?
Reading literary fiction allows one to become a better author.
Reading literary fiction helps one understand life.
Reading literary fiction offers up a beacon of hope.
Reading literary fiction draws one closer to God.