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We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

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We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

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About Paul Park

Paul Claiborne Park (born October 1, 1954, in North Adams, Massachusetts) is an American science fiction author and fantasy author. He taught literature and writing in the Williams College English Department and the Graduate Program in Art History, retiring as a senior lecturer in 2022. He also taught at the Clarion West writing workshop and the Clarion Workshop and was an instructor at Clarion West in 2011.