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How to Find Real Life in Stories with George Saunders

The One You Feed

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Is Your Punishment Making You Sick?

In a similar part very near there in the book as these people are lamenting all the things that they did in life and how they couldn't have done differently. It made me then think of a conversation i had with a gentleman recently his name's father Gregory Boyle. He makes this distinction that punishment doesn't really make sense given if you take their history into account but you also have to stop them. If you're thinking reading it with an eye towards reacting and altering that's a more hopeful stance, he says.

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