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http://ducts.sundresspublications.com/content/fiction/in-the-time-of-the-byzantine-empire/ The Webzine of Personal Stories Mon, 29 Sep 2014 20:15:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 http://ducts.sundresspublications.com/content/fiction/in-the-time-of-the-byzantine-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-12514 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 20:15:05 +0000 http://www.ducts.org/content/?p=3154#comment-12514 The need to stay against erasure — isn’t that what Cynthia Ozick said prompted her to write? This is a beautifully written compendium of loss. From the husband’s injury to the ex-wife’s presence (now even further removed to Italy) to her son’s previous closeness to the figure in the window in the past, the first family, the impending loss of the second family… I love the family-building juxtaposed with the empires built and decayed, the helmet-wearing versus the Ravenna bicyclists who don’t wear helmets, a tiny detail that shows us how the ex-wife sees how unfair the world can be. We are all making little empires that will fall. And the jealousy of the ex-wife and the frustration of the current wife, it is easy to relate to both of them. Thank you for the beautiful story!

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