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Category: Siddharth

Chapter I: First Cry

October 30, 2017October 30, 2017 siddharthk21Siddharth

  Evil haunts me. Not poetically. Not in a romanticized way. It is not a beautiful tragedy to me. It is the worst of the human soul manifested in actions that reduce me – at[…]

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Birth

October 9, 2017October 25, 2017 siddharthk21Siddharth

I was taught that literature begins with introductions, so here is my humble attempt at one. For those of you who I haven’t had the pleasure of knowing, my name is Siddharth Kumar and I[…]

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Polished Personal Response: Light Air and Solid Black Lines

January 10, 2016January 21, 2016 siddharthk21Siddharth

Human need to commit to or renounce a course of action.  He wasn’t always like this. There was a time this youth had dreams, dreams that carried him away on a breeze as light as[…]

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Frankenstein Polished Critical: Resilience and the Weakening Forces of Empathy

January 10, 2016January 21, 2016 siddharthk21Siddharth

Prompt: The ways in which an individual’s resilience is shaped by empathy.                   Empathy is a weakening emotion. It takes the experiences and emotional upheavals of one and forces another to undergo the insecurity, pain[…]

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Who is Stanley Kowalski?

December 1, 2015December 1, 2015 siddharthk21Siddharth

  Who is Stanley Kowalski? Introduced to the reader through the aggressive symbolism of raw meat, Williams seems to have a very clear intention of who we wants Stanley to be. Right from our opening[…]

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Nonsense

November 12, 2015November 22, 2015 siddharthk21Siddharth

They have been given infinite choice! And within the context of this infinite choice there is a shocking disregard for the laws of society, a shocking and regrettable disregard for the order of things, I must[…]

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They Too Existed

October 12, 2015 siddharthk21Siddharth

A personal response to Gustave Gilbert’s epilogue in Sergeant Nibley PhD: Memories of an Unlikely Screaming Eagle. It seems to me that if there is one condition that sets humans apart and superior to beasts, it[…]

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Why Do We Live?

September 27, 2015October 12, 2015 siddharthk21Siddharth

As I write, I cruise at an altitude of 22,767 ft above the topaz sea, walking amongst the polar caps of the skies. The clouds roll out farther than the eye can see, caressing one[…]

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The Virtuous Man

September 18, 2015September 20, 2015 siddharthk21Siddharth

“ I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.”                                […]

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