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wow! this is just terrific. She's intelligent

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As a kid, when i heard that caption'THE BEAUTIFUL ONES ARE NOT YET BORN', it made me feel very ugly
i started reading quite early, at about 8,' thing fall apart' made a lot of sense to me
but as a kid, whenever i tried 'the beautiful ones are not yet born',
it never made any sense at all to me
because while reading, i just wanted to find out Kwei's reasons for calling all of us 'ugly'
anyway, later as an adult, i read the book, and then it made a lot of sense.
another book that used to decieve me then was all of 'James Chase'
Naked beautiful women on the cover and nothing about them inside
as a kid, that really pissed me too.
so i'm just curious
what are some of the books that got you really wondering from the captions, or back pages
that got you making up the story in your head even before you read it
then after you read it, you found out it said something totally different

the story was alarmingly short, and i think the world would be a better place if all writers learnt to say so much i so little words. one reason i adore art, literature, is that it has the freedom to mean various things to various people. the story made a lot of sense to me because recently i have been thinking of superstition, luck, fate, and all, and to me, this short story just said something about it.

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