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"Class, today we're going to start a VERY long lesson on allegory. It starts today with the reading of this short story, and it ends 30 years from now when you're watching your last parent die in a hospital bed of old age with nothing you can do about it."
Flowers for Algernon moment
Just think of the rabbits.
That's a novella but definitely more disturbing and more universal than most of the short stories in this thread
That's of mice and men tho right?
U ok bro?
I am! Thanks for asking.
I was riffing off the OP post. We're exposed to ideas early in life (at school) that we don't understand the gravity of until much later.
Watership Down (1978) was fucking terrifying as a child.
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