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tale one of a group of short stories connected by an overall narrative framework
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When Strider tells tales of a time "'when the world was young'" (FR 205), the tales are affecting not so much in themselves but insofar as the world that they tell of is lost. Rockefeller tells tales of the long list of contacts compiled during his career: Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khruschev, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, the shah of Iran, Richard Nixon and many other prominent figures from the 20th century. In this piece, Kornbluth tells tales of how his father would wake him up singing lines from "The Internationale. |
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