Other Duties as Assigned, Part III
Or, "Why I Didn't Sign My Teacher Contract"
This is part III in a series. Here is Part I and here is Part II.
I looked at him over my shoulder. “I've got out at last,” said I, “in spite of you and Jane? And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!”
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
His boss would certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the doctor’s recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed that no one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what’s more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual.
-Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”
None of those assembled there knew his name or what he did for a living.
-Haruki Murakami, “The Seventh Man”
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