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Iris Murdoch's In Pursuit Of The Perfect Story

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In Pursuit of the Perfect Story Since I was a kid, I have always found regular, everyday life to be, boring. At the age of eight I was reading at a college level. I had no particular interest in any particular subject, yet I was reading books that no grade schooler would normally look at, let alone comprehend. Literary works ranging from alchemy, to zoology could be found piled floor to ceiling in my bedroom. But try though I might, I was still a listless, quite boy with no particular interest in anything. I had yet to find something truly extraordinary locked between their pages. So, for lack of anything better to do, I kept digging. I tore my way through most of the school library and any other work of academia I could get my hands on. However I always found myself losing interest soon after I began. “What are you even looking for in those books of yours?” I didn’t know how to answer my mother when she asked me that. Neither of my parents could understand the borderline unhealthy fascination of books their eight year old possessed. Nor could they understand why he was so different from them. My mother had religion, which try though she might, I didn’t truly share. My father had his work ethic and desire to understand the world around him, which I could respect, but find no motivation to emulate. My search for …show more content…

Something finally held my interest longer than the span of a few hundred pages. Even after I had savored the final line of that story, I continued to ponder its alternate world for days on end. I had spent so much time thinking that there was nothing of interest in my life, when one was obviously right in front of me. If reality was boring, I simply had to embrace fantasy and find the perfect

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