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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 82 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"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."

[-] Wilzax@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago
[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago
[-] Wilzax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That's a novella but definitely more disturbing and more universal than most of the short stories in this thread

[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's of mice and men tho right?

[-] Xenny@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago
[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Watership Down (1978) was fucking terrifying as a child.

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