Kyriakos doesn't like fun. He likes creepy stuff. I doubt "The Ransom of Red Chief" would appeal much.
Suggest english-language short stories
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Your work isn't fun?I like funJust not in literature. Literature is my work. Business and pleasure &c, just in a different variation
I get that, to some extent. I started doing 3-D needlepoint as a hobby, but a couple of years later I got good enough that I considered trying to sell it (I can only make so many doodads for family and myself). That started a second home business that filled the time between the insanely busy times when I was doing term papers and essays for the college and university students. Then some projects were no longer fun (when someone ordered multiple sets of the same thing, I kind of lost my enthusiasm for some projects after making 35 identical items; not so bad if there are different colors, but these were all the same).
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I have - of course- read Gogol's The Overcoat, and some other works by him. He is a very important writer.
I have no mouth and i must scream is a cool idea, but imo VERY badly and bluntly written. The computer game was better
The circular ruins(Borges) is ok (though nowhere near his best), but 'Myself and Borges' is from his old period, and he pretty much died as a writer in his mid 50s. Later on he apparently was a parody of his older self. I suspect that 'self etc' is from that same period, unless it is an essay.
I suggested those collection as a good start. I don't like Ellison much myself.
OTOH, what I liked when I was 30 is quite different to what I liked at 10 and 60.
They are not the best stories by Borges, but they are the one's chosen as most
appropriate for the themes covered in The Mind's I.
Last suggestion: SandKings, by George R.R. Martin.
sophie
Break My Heart
Thomas Mann's Tonio Kröger
