6/8/2023 0 Comments Exhalation short story![]() ![]() I’m not sure if this is the right group for that, but this is the first place I thought of.” So I’m the reason it’s hard for me to be generous. ![]() It was hard for me because I’ve made a lot of little decisions to be selfish in the past. And it’s easy for them because in the past they made a lot of little decisions to be generous. Because there are other people for whom being generous comes easily, without a struggle. “I feel good about what I did, but it’s not like I deserve a medal or anything. In Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom, a story about free-will and alternate timelines, a character says: At first it felt too simple, but it began to sparkle in the way it made accessible larger questions about free-will, time, and language. I’m picky about books for planes, and was relieved to find that Chiang’s prose was not only easy to read but captivating. I picked Ted Chiang’s short story collection the day before a flight (coincidentally in Bellevue, where he currently lives). If I were asked to point to a book that demonstrated ornate prose or tortuous sentences were unnecessary for conveying difficult philosophical questions, it would be this. ![]()
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