The Human Condition


Lord of the Flies
The Brothers Karamazov
The Stranger
The Bell Jar
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Never Let Me Go
Of Mice and Men
Animal Farm
1984
The Catcher in the Rye
Martyr!
The Metamorphosis
Giovanni’s Room
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Adrian   Barnes
“ Life's a scab, and it's our nature to pick at it until it bleeds. ...more ”
― Adrian Barnes, Nod

Aspen Matis
“ He stared at me. “Every person exists in their own shallow bowl, and they can’t see over the rim,” he explained. “But they think that their world is the world—the truth. When in reality, no two bowls are identical, and all people are stuck trapped in their own.” Listening to my love, I felt as if we were transported back to the trail, staring at the inky field of ghostly stars. My hair dangling off our bed and onto the hardwood floor, almost upside down, I challenged him, intoxicated. “No that’ ...more ”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

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