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A few months ago, Doris recommended this elegant and moving little short story to me. I liked it so much that I spent an evening converting the text for use in LARA, a learning-by-reading platform that's been put together over the last couple of years by Matt, Hanieh, Not and myself. Earlier this week, Chadi saw one of my LARA posts, we got talking, and she said she'd be interested in recording the audio for Le bonheur. She's done a beautiful job! You can listen to her here.
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I have lots of things to say about this profound short story of de Maupassant, especially that delightful and tender feeling of love, running through the last lines; that rare lost feeling of our time, us, the modern proud humans of all time! Sometimes I ask myself if love -as in the form we dream of, not as the automatic function of some hormones- really exists or the writers/poets put out their dreams of what humans need to be true/real into their works, so others could at least READ about it,
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