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Chapter 53: “Gilead” by Marilynne Robinson (2005)
“I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or […]
Chapter 40: “Lamb In His Bosom” by Caroline Miller (1934)
“Never does He forget a child o’ His’n. ‘Tis His children that forget that He is rememberin’. Get on yere knees and climn on them […]
Chapter 31: “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room […]
Chapter 24: “A Fable” by William Faulkner (1955)
“The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely […]
Chapter 6: “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” by Thornton Wilder (1928)
“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.” I […]
Chapter 2: “The Fixer” by Bernard Malamud (1967)
“’Would you say you have a “philosophy” of your own? If so what is it?’ ‘If I have, it’s all skin and bones…If I have any […]