Matthew Ferguson

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“Distractions in Isolation” by Matthew Ferguson

Submitted to Contest #38

"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. Our citizens work hard, but solely with the object of getting rich. Their chief interest is commerce, and their chief aim in life is, as they call it, 'doing business.' Albert Camus, The Plague. If it is to be believed that the priesthood is a calling, then the same could be said about novel writing. To Jean Grenier it must have been as though writing a novel was his calling. While he was an excellent high school teacher and a great father and husband, he was bu...

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