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Death Of 1000 Cuts - Episode 12

Death Of 1000 Cuts

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The Blind Stroke

It falls into the unfortunate trope of blind stroke wheelchair bound character making sardonic reference to their disability. Unless you give them a story to exist in they feel less like a protagonist and more like an exoticized carnival attraction behold the incredible isla's barfly imprisoned in a world of eternal darkness marvel as he accurately gauges the volume of alcohol in a glass tumbler gasp as he makes complex meteorological predictions using only his legs swoon as he uses money like a real person quirky outsider narrators may periodically send the middlebrow literary world all a flutter but the only thing they excited me is gibbering conipsions give us a story and that's it if you'd

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