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Image credits: Wichella #8. Can only remember a moment in personal history. I was the last generation in my country to do mandatory military service. And apparently my generation is particularly lazy.
[8] The Atlantic Monthly called the work, "far-reaching, insightful, very funny, profound, surprising, and awfully human"; [9] at National Public Radio, Michael Schaub described the book as "a startlingly sad yet deeply funny postscript to the career of one of the most interesting American writers of all time", calling it "crushingly poignant ...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments is a 1997 collection of nonfiction writing by David Foster Wallace. In the title essay, originally published in Harper's as "Shipping Out", Wallace describes the excesses of his one-week trip in the Caribbean aboard the cruise ship MV Zenith , which he rechristens the Nadir .
Advertisements for Myself is an omnibus collection of fiction, essays, verse, and fragments by Norman Mailer, with autobiographical commentaries that he calls "advertisements." [ 1 ] Advertisements was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1959 after Mailer secured his reputation with The Naked and the Dead , then endured setbacks with the less ...
An article about yourself is nothing to be proud of. The neutral point of view (NPOV) policy will ensure that both the good and the bad about you will be told, that whitewashing is not allowed, and that the conflict of interest (COI) guideline limits your ability to edit out any negative material from an article about yourself.
They woke me up in the middle of the night to transfer me to Research Psychiatric. It was quiet in the ward: Everyone was asleep. Back then, in the winter of 2010, I had extraordinarily vivid dreams, and I loved to dream, because I often dreamt of my children and other good things that were no longer part of my waking everyday life.
Self-referential humor, also known as self-reflexive humor, self-aware humor, or meta humor, is a type of comedic expression [1] that—either directed toward some other subject, or openly directed toward itself—is self-referential in some way, intentionally alluding to the very person who is expressing the humor in a comedic fashion, or to some specific aspect of that same comedic expression.
On the day the story of my rape came out, I had to drop my cat Cleo off at “summer camp”—my euphemism for the week she’d be away receiving radioactive iodine treatment for a thyroid tumor. Outside, the July sun was bright, but the vet's office felt like a refrigerator.