The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Experience: Self-Love
Narrative Technology: Self-Self-Affirmation
"Every dawn, tell yourself, 'Today I will encounter selfish, scheming, stealing men. But I know goodness--and its beauty. And because I know, nothing can harm me. So, I will love the men who act in ugliness toward me"
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January 9, 2025
The Wisdom of Ptahhotep
Experience: Self-Trust
Narrative Technology: Self-Affirmation
"The strength of my words is their truth./They live on in mouths and in minds/Because of their worth."
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January 9, 2025
Confessions
Experience: Self-Love
Narrative Technology: Secret Discloser
"I was a chatterbox, a glutton, and occasionally a liar too." "I would read all night, unable to stop."
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January 9, 2025
Don Quixote
Experience: Self-Irony
Narrative Technology: Irony
Like me, Quixote seeks the same experiences he read about in literary romances (fully convinced these things will come to him), but encounters the real world: "The don's reward for these wish-chasing heroics is gruesome physical hurt. Crashing into the hard knocks of life, he gets chewed by lions, outmuscled by pilgrims, and thwacked by windmills, ending up bone bruised in ditch after ditch" (Fletcher 168).
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January 9, 2025
30 Rock
Experience: Self-Irony
Narrative Technology: Irony
Like me, Liz Lemon thinks that she can fight the powers of the corporation she works for.
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January 9, 2025
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Experience: Self-Irony
Narrative Technology: Irony
The earthling, Arthur Dent, learns from the alien researcher, Ford Prefect, that the entry for "earth" in the digital encyclopedia of the cosmos notes only that it is "mostly harmless." Like me, Dent thought the earth was pretty important and worthy of more description.
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January 9, 2025
Animal Farm
Experience: Self-Irony
Narrative Technology: Irony
Like me, Snowball and Napoleon think they can organize things better if they're in charge
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January 9, 2025
Infinite Jest
Experience: Self-Irony
Narrative Technology: Irony
Like me, Hal self-medicates and consumes tons of pop entertainment to feel better.
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January 9, 2025
All about H. Hatterr
Experience: Self-Irony
Narrative Technology: Irony
Like me, the main character thought that ancient sages achieved enlightenment
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January 9, 2025
Babbitt
Experience: Self-Irony
Narrative Technology: Irony
Like me, Babbitt believes that capitalism provides a better system to organize our society
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January 9, 2025