short story
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
There are books that can just be enjoyed on their own and then there are books that are meant to be discussed. Carver’s collection of short stories are the latter for me. He uses tightly woven dialogue and basic repetition to create a melody that is heavy and haunting despite its simplicity. His writing is…
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The Vain Pursuit of Unrealized Truths
By failing to recognize the woman as an extension of himself, he fails to manipulate the tools around to, essentially, become his most true self. These fears and wishes must be recognized in order to be actualized. Only when the narrator meets his repressed feelings of solitude and desire for companionship can he go beyond…
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Confronting the Burden of Freedom in the Face of Systematic Religion
Regardless of the outcomes that follow thereafter, we must always remember that we are never as alive, never as able, and never as responsible as when we become fully cognizant of a moment in which the progression of our lives depend on our action or inaction.
Via Justine De fant 