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Exhalation: Stories
George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year (Published 2013)
Joel Lovellnytimes.com
It seemed to me that a perfect memory couldn’t be a narrative any more than unedited security-cam footage could be a feature film.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
‘He is a collection of tissues and cells delicately and intricately conjoined and brought to life for only an instant. It will take just one sharp collision or a fall to render them inanimate again,’ realises Rabih, the quiet hero of Alain de Botton’s The Course of Love. ‘He is only a visitor who has managed to confuse his self with the world. He h
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People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different fo
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