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Reads tagged with “Meghan O’Rourke”

Shakespeare, Sadness-Shaman: How Hamlet Can Help Us Through Our Grief and Despair
Shakespeare, Sadness-Shaman: How Hamlet Can Help Us Through Our Grief and Despair

“Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming…”

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How We Grieve: Meghan O’Rourke on the Messiness of Mourning and Learning to Live with Loss
How We Grieve: Meghan O’Rourke on the Messiness of Mourning and Learning to Live with Loss

“The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.”

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