Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion”
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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Rudolfio - The Little Prince
The extent to which the seducer left a girl with nothing was the very mark of his artistry. It meant having the self control to not get her pregnant or abandon her at the altar. For russian class, i had to read a short story called rudolfio. In class, irena nikolaevna asked us whether rudolf had loved io. Everyone agreed that he hadn't. He loved her a little bit.
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