How to Summarize the Human Condition in Two Minutes or Less! (At Least in Fiction)

Aaron McIlhenny
Aug 31, 2018 · 18 min read
San Juan around the time of Sánchez’s writing (Image source: Wikipedia)

You are on crowded highway. You are driving home. White concrete buildings shimmer in the heat. Their edges blur into the blue-gold Pacific on the right; on the left, they impose their regimented verticality onto the rolling, green-fuzzed hills of your nation’s interior. It is late summer; it is late afternoon. This morning, your child threw your…

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