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The Sunday Read: ‘How Yiyun Li Became a Beacon for Readers in Mourning’
The Daily
Entering the Urn
The Proverbs message is about cruelty and justice, that which you inflict on others may eventually be inflicted on you. But it also suggests a more foundational truth about the way our experience tends to take on the shape of our mental life. To enter the urn is to meet the conditions of your own consciousness, to encounter the question of how to endure within them. Many of Lee's characters are recluses of a sort, driven by the urge to escape their circumstances or to reclaim their consciousness from the influence of others.
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