Category: Fiction
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Grumpy Old Man Gets Haunted By Three Christmas Ghosts
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You can live an inspired life. It probably doesn’t happen every day, but you have had those days. Days when you wake up and everything seems to be in sync. You feel energized, and you feel like you can take on anything. If you’ve ever encountered Simon Sinek’s work, this is one of his recurring…
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Ever heard of self-help fable? Here is a quick version, (also spoilers.) Two mice and two little people live in a maze where they must find cheese. One day they find a station full of cheese. They decide to settle there. On another day, they find that the cheese is gone. The two mice set…
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It is not always the big changes. It happens day by day. The child becomes an adult. The adult loses something. The adult can no longer see how scary an elephant-swallowing boa constrictor can be. The adult sees a “hat”. The adult loses a connection to a childhood that was much simpler. Much more imaginative.…
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Captains Courageous is about a rich, bratty kid who gets thrown out of his bubble, and experiences life as lived by fishermen. This story was set in the late 1890’s. Harvey Cheyne falls overboard their ship, and is picked up by a fishing schooner. Growing up with billionaire tycoon parents, he was spoiled and entitled.…
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I have almost no recollection of what happens in El Filibusterismo. I know it’s the sequel of Noli and that Ibarra becomes Simoun. But that’s it. Having re-read it now, I appreciate more what the book meant for the society at the time, and until now. Noli ends with Ibarra’s descent into anger. In Fili,…
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