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#389 Sheila Heti: Art is the Opposite of an Algorithm

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You Can Create Life, but Just Because You Can, You Know?

"I don't want to spend my whole life defining myself against something that i'm not," she says. "To have none, to have no document of that, and that's just a huge emptiness" The book is the first time we've seen this kind of thinking about motherhood in literary form - but it doesn't stop there. It asks: What do you do with this awesome power if you choose not to take it?

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