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Mary Gaitskill again. Same collection. “The Agonized Face.” Back before we had terms like SWERF.

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Queen of Spades!
You know, when he used duress to get his card strategy, I wondered why she didn’t just lie to him. She could have told him anything, and gotten out of there alive. Of course that would not have made as slick a revenge tale. 🙃

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Queen of Spades!
Who says magical realism is a 20th century South American phenomenon!

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Queen of Spades!
Kind of a thinker story. I imagine the appropriate way to discuss this short story is inside with vodka shots and Russians inside a tavern somewhere in winter. This image probably involves stereotypes on my part, but it’s how I imagine the literary criticism would be best done.

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“The Cats Of Ulthar”
Lovecraft doesn’t describe what was done to the cats, or even, exactly, what the cats did, but it must have been horrible!
(And Lovecraft is so stylish in how he brings the horror!)
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1/3/23
#MaryGaitskill “College Town”
This story sounds like grunge.
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The way the plot is constructed, this one has a sense of mystery for me, almost in the older, sacred sense, and I’m an American, so I don’t believe in the romance of the monarchy much!

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Day 2: Thomas Hardy’s The Reappearance of the Duke
I haven’t read a whole lot of Hardy, but I liked this one. It felt a little clunky getting into it, but it also felt realistic. (Not as good as Chekhov, though!
There are definitely things to think about in this one post Weinstein. Entitlement, etc.
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Story summary: a shopkeeper tells a girl that her current romantic involvement is a bad idea and she cries about it.
And yet this story really works!
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Story a day challenge: read a short story every day and think about it!
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