Buying a New Life Package in “Standard Loneliness Package” by Charles Yu

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English - April 18, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 49.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
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In a (not-so-distant) future world where the experience of pain is outsourced to the third world, a man tries as he might to find intimacy. That is the premise of the short story, “Standard Loneliness Package” by Charles Yu, under today’s discussion. In this episode, we talk about emotional labor, the corruption of intimacy and the quiet piecewise loss of one’s life.

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