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How to Survive a Horror Story

by Mallory Arnold

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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

by Atul Gawande

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Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

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Not so much that its opportunities are vast or that one’s personal dreams can be reached at any age or season, but rather to believe that every dull or daily thing you do will happen again any number of times over. To stamp a limit on even ...more

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“I feel a sudden pang of sadness that robots will never get to experience this kind of pride in their work.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

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“Not so much that its opportunities are vast or that one’s personal dreams can be reached at any age or season, but rather to believe that every dull or daily thing you do will happen again any number of times over. To stamp a limit on even the most tedious of things—the number of times you have left to buy a coffee, the number of times you will defrost the fridge—is to acknowledge reality in a way that amounts to torture. In truth, we will only perform any action a certain number of times, and to know that can never be helpful.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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