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Bring back the short story.

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From: Cape Times (South Africa)
Date: 20061003
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I was thinking the other day of Aldous Huxley's beautiful short story Young Archimedes and how it captures so movingly the sadness, frustration and waste of talent aborted by environment. This led me to thinking of other great short stories, and even, to tumble head over heels from the sublime to the ridiculous, some of my own.

How sad it is that the short story has lost popularity. One would have thought that the short story would be ideal reading matter in this hurried age, where we are said to have shortened concentration spans due to TV watching. Stuck on a plane or train ...

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