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“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.”

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31 points

Flowers for Algernon moment

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Just think of the rabbits.

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That’s of mice and men tho right?

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

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U ok bro?

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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.

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

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