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Akhil Sharma Reads Joyce Carol Oates

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Importance of a Zombie

University students have always been forbidden to me. A safer specimen for a zombi would be somebody from out of town, a hitch iker or a drifter,. Or a junkey, if in good condition, or down on somebody. Nobody gives a dam for somebody who should never have been born. This is why, seeing the universe like that, you see how futile it is to believe that any galaxy matters, let alone any star of any galaxy, or any planet.

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