A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place   By Ernest Hemingway
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There are times when the story must be recalled. It's inevitable to meet despair on those endurable nights that they always excuse it with insomnia. However, they've somehow been convinced to believe that people are going to find out the THING in NOTHINGNESS anyway. Not today, but with this thought they'll arrest it some day. And that's all the reason why they seem to be waiting all the time. The positive pessimistism makes these aliens survive.