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 H.
L. Hix
 I
came to reading late, and it was books — plural
— that changed my life, but one in particular,
Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, offered
me distrust. I’d been taught that true stories
console; here was another take, that they — these
same stories, or any other — might instead raise
the stakes on a life. My life. I’d taken others’
word for it that others’ word for it should be
taken, that being responsible would ensconce me securely
in a community; here was provocation to be egregious
— out of the flock — on the premise that
obligation and assurance might not match.
— H.
L. Hix
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Nancy M. Stuart
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