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Cortazar's Story
Cortazar’s story is a fine line between reality and a shroud of vivid imagery illusion. His passion almost boarders on great detail. Cortazar writes, “He takes the almost perverse pleasure of disengaging himself line by line from the things around him.” The velvet green armchair is definitely a place that was comfortable for the man to sit as he reads. This is a focal point in the story that the author points out. It is at the end of the story the green velvet chair appears in the story again, only this time it is the man ready the novel that is in the
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