![]() ![]() The stories discuss free will or lack thereof, the meaning of loneliness, a Brave New World-esque technology of the future, the results of too little enlightenment, the human desire for fulfillment and its downsides, a historically tackled reinterpretation of the afterlife, mor(t)ality, etc. While the structure and style aren’t monumental - although the sentences hit syntax gold sometimes -I enjoy the premise of the book: It is a digestible piece of philosophy, a genre of literature that is easily understandable for the masses. The format of the stories are relatively standardized: introductory information dump, conflict, consideration of conflict and/or resolution, and some ending philosophy. The three- to seven-page stories read fast not only because of their length, but also because they are stories, confined within themselves and requiring little memory the simplicity of the language also makes for a more fluid read. ![]() I begin to read in between packing for later travels. A curiosity swells: how can one reconcile an auditory and visual presentation of information with a literary one? I’m sold and so is the book a minute later. It lies on the bottom of a heavy stack of books and includes the word “hidden.” The book clearly knows the sense of discovery I seek and proudly offers it.Ī scan of the cover and binding reveals that these short stories appear as YouTube videos on Pantano’s channel, Pursuit of Wonder, with over 2 million subscribers. I initially pick up (or rather, pull out) this read because it belongs in the short story section, and I want to read a new format. Today, my exceptional and momentous find is “The Hidden Story of Every Person & Other Short Stories” by Robert Pantano. So know, your book is exceptional and momentous. The book could be traveling - courtesy of Chamblin’s book trading service - taken by a customer hoping to spend their store credit. ![]() The book could be shelves away or not on a shelf at all. Their jargon probably includes words like “cluttered,” “packed,” “unsettled.”īut I enjoy the cluttered, packed and unsettled because the untidiness makes room for meaty discoveries: on any other day, a book you find could be lodged in another book or relocated to the bottom of the shelf. Neatly curated doesn’t quite fall in the vocabulary of Chamblin’s much of the little organization comes from handwritten signs directing visitors to a genre or the existence of the bookshelves themselves. ![]() Alphabetical organization even eludes some of these books. These volumes are, at times, vertically stacked, but mostly horizontally to fill the pockets of wood that are their bookshelves. I was among books, chronicles, magnum opuses, classics. In fact, while I was sheltered from the rain by independent bookstore Chamblin’s Uptown, I was anything but alone. “It was a dark and stormy night,” a heavily cliched story might begin, but our story and the story begins differently because it was dark and stormy on this Friday, but it wasn’t night nor was there a pretense of isolation that this cliched phrase indicates. ![]()
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