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...suddenly I heard from people all over the globe. I had three clicks on my blogs the morning the story came out. By the end of the day, I had 3,000. I heard from soldiers deployed in Iraq, a woman in Lebanon whose therapist gave her the essay, and lots of people from Australia. Christians, atheists, Muslims, Jews - and Buddhists, lots of Buddhists. I heard from a lot of married people, but surprisingly enough, I heard a lot of unmarried people - old, young, gay, straight - saying, "You know, I have this relationship with my boss." (See pictures of marriage...
...what we did. Neither of us ever signed up for the happily-ever-after myth or the you-complete-me idea. We were always independent people coming together. But both us really were driven in our careers. That's another reason I think so many people responded to that essay. In our current economy, so many people's relationships are taking hits because of career failure. Isn't it interesting that the minute I let go of my career and of my marriage, that that's when all this abundance started? Our marriage is working. I've got a book...
...chase through a house of mirrors. “Beatrice and Virgil” is slyly autobiographical and self-referential. It begins by telling the story of an author named Henry and his struggles to get his latest opus published. He has written a dual book and essay that seek to bring the Holocaust out of the stultifying realm of historical narrative and first-hand accounts into the realm of fiction. According to Henry, it is only in fiction that the memory can live forever and continue to grow, thus saving the Holocaust from the indignity of being forgotten. Since...
Henry’s book is initially denied publication. According to Henry’s publishers, corporate bookstores would not know how to classify or market what Henry calls a “flip-book,” with a novel on one side and an essay on the other. The book, therefore, would be doomed from the start. So discouraged by this, Henry goes into a period of artistic withdrawal, in which he cannot bring himself to write. It almost seems that Martel is making a private joke, as he proceeds, in the rest of “Beatrice...
...Hiccup wounds an elusive creature called the Night Fury, no one believes him. Soon he tames, trains and learns to ride the beast, thus schooling his clan in the proto-eco message that the wilder forces of nature should not be fought but instead cultivated. (See TIME's photo-essay "Animated Movies: Not Just for Kids...