
Literature and the scandal of holiness
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The Story of Lauris by Walker Percy
In your introduction, you talk about how our modern mindset tends to cast us as either the hero or the author of our own stories. In reality, we're neither. And i believe, from reading these these ratives, these novels, that we are actually a part of a much greater story than we could write if we were doing it by ourselves. So i find it a freeing thought, not an oppressive one, to know that i am not the author of my own story, certainly.
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