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Ricardo Alberto's avatar

Poor Chris can’t catch a break 😆🥲 This is a stretch but your story reminded me of this gem by E. T. A Hoffman:

https://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~rlbeebe/sandman.pdf

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Ricardo Alberto's avatar

OMG! You did actually read it? I’m glad you liked it. 🙂

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Sara Szatmary's avatar

Sure did! I take recs seriously!

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Ricardo Alberto's avatar

Haha! I just like it so much. Like this month I’m thinking about reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen one more time. And yesterday I read again, for the umpteenth time, The Greatest Gift by Phillip Van Doren 🥹

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Ricardo Alberto's avatar

Fantastic. I’ll be sure to recommend you more things later on.

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Sara Szatmary's avatar

Please do!

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Ricardo Alberto's avatar

I’ve just finished reading The Sandman again, haha! Just realized Nathaniel is like an early Raskolnikov, don’t you think so?

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Sara Szatmary's avatar

Oh man, it's been a long time since I read Crime and Punishment, but I can definitely see it! Also, I think it's lovely that you revisited the story. It's something I don't do nearly enough of.

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Ricardo Alberto's avatar

It’s beautiful! I hope you like it. Let me know if you don’t.

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Sara Szatmary's avatar

Reporting back that I loved it! Thank you for the recommendation.

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Sara Szatmary's avatar

Hah, I know, right?! I haven’t heard of this one before but I’m eager to dig in!

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