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

Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion”

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

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The Yeare Arranged Categories, Not Formal

i thought there was something wrong with the way it was organized. Why were the different branches of literature categorized by geography and language, while sciences were categorized by the level of abstraction or by the size of the object of study? I read chance was what yvan had gone to california to study. His thesis had been about random walks and flaners were something that literature people talked about. And literature was what i was going to study. Could the fleners and the random walks help me understand what had happened with ivan. The coarse description mentioned andre breton's naga, a book i'd noticed once in spilana's room when i was waiting for her to

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