The past, now.
- Flaubert
Mysticism and Dogma in ‘A Simple Heart’ (A school assignment)
Flaubert’s short story, “A Simple Heart,” illustrates a path to the divine that is not dependent on rational understanding of religious dogma. However, the mystical path followed by the simple-hearted heroine of the story, Felicité, is supported by and intimately connected [...]
- Hotel Chelsea
(Final paragraph of a 5-page story, unpublished.)
I saw the stairwells of the hotel, the walls covered in with pictures and frames, the ceramic girl in the swing hanging from the ceiling of the lobby, the marionettes in the corner, the key cubbies, the generations of artists and writers and musicians milling in the hallways, the [...]
- Mark Haddon
Christopher Boone, high-functioning autistic narrator of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, demonstrates his enlightenment:
“[W]hen we look at things we think we’re just looking out of our eyes like we’re looking out of little windows and there’s a person inside our head, but we’re not. We’re looking at a screen inside our [...]
