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Elif Batuman Reads Sylvia Townsend Warner

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Boy Is Also the Father, Right?

I wanted to ask you what you thought that the last line meant. How did you interpret that he's also the father? Oan, i was wondering if there is some religious stuff there too. Ande, i mean, he changed his own role from the person who kind of like disappoints the boy in the house and is sort of like irrelevant and useless to the man in the house. That's the reality. In the story he makes up, he saves the boy's life. Am, oh, height open his eyes to how his own son could be feeling, and makes him realize that he didn't want to realize it,. So he changes the story to come up with a

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