On getting lost in a book. Set adrift A life unknown Connections form Love is sewn

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In a quote from James Joyce’s short story, “The Dead,” the protagonist says that “A life unknown is a sort of death.” To live a life without experience is to be dead. In the story, the protagonist has been searching for his lost love by traveling to a town in which he lived in a former life. The town is quite different from the one he was born in and the people who know him by his former identity are not very helpful or welcoming. The protagonist is happy to be “set adrift” and left alone with his memories of the past.

Source: An Unlikely Arrangement

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