/lit/ - Literature

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I find this essay particularly interesting because he confines (you) to the second person, applies a life to you and drags you into the narrative until you’re forced to start living it. At this point it’s no longer about “this isn’t me” but rather the immersive viscerality you experience through the boy as he emerges into social recognition, confronts the idea of death and matures through the art of sublimation in a concise manner which parallels the reader’s experience in reading the essay as well as Dave’s experience writing it.