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Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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The Seducer's Diary

Kiergegard said that you have to either read the whole book or just not read it at all. The seducer's diary started with a description of johannes the seducer, and how he was able, using his mental gifts, to make a girl fall in love with him. He wrote, this was just how i had felt when ivan told me about the hungary programme. If she can predict anything then i have gone wrong, and the whole relationship loses its meaning.

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