The little voice of your desire - Artificial Whimsy
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Lessons from literature & life on how to listen for it in the noise of external pressures. What do you really want?
In one unusual and blissful class at the GSB—“The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry through Literature”—students read works of literature and relate the lessons to their own lives. As a subscriber to the belief that literature teaches you, as Wallace Stevens put it, “How to Live. What to Do,” I loved it. This piece is an adaptation of an essay I wrote for that class. And I’m proud to say that I have come far since the first version of it was written in the spring. I hope it helps you listen for the little voice of your desire. My therapist stares back at me, understanding but…
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