Posted in Immigrants on Apr 7th, 2020
When the bumper fell off the family car, I thought the family in the story were lower middle class: Just enough money to be embarrassed by ragged clothes, but not enough to do anything about it. The thing is, I’m sure they view themselves that way, or at least our narrator does. He ignores his […]
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Posted in Fantastic, Reality on Mar 31st, 2020
Because of the fantastic talent of its protagonist, Harlan Crane, and the mysteriousness of his character, Millhauser’s “Precursor of the Cinema” seems like fiction. On the contrary, there are various instances throughout the tale that demand it be taken as truth. The beginning of the short story reads like a research paper or a historical […]
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