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The Hungerers

Short Play, Drama  /  2w, 3m

William Saroyan

The Hungerers is an American fable. The hunger of these hungerers is not a hunger for bread alone, although that hunger is beautiful enough. It is a hunger for immortality. The simple immortality which comes about when human beings rid themselves of all world imposed absurdities and know th…

The Hungerers

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    2w, 3m
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    Fables/Folktales

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The Hungerers is an American fable. The hunger of these hungerers is not a hunger for bread alone, although that hunger is beautiful enough. It is a hunger for immortality. The simple immortality which comes about when human beings rid themselves of all world imposed absurdities and know the foolishness of pride.

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William Saroyan

William Saroyan
Novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, and essayist, William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California in 1908. A high-school dropout, Saroyan was largely self-educated and decided at an early age to pursue a career as a writer, drawing on his experience as an Armenian-America ...
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