The essay Bullet in My Neck really caught me with its bazaar action and conflicting reality. The idea that memory and experience are personal even in shared experiences is interesting. When details happen so fast, people interpret them differently. I believe that shock also alters memory as well as perception of what is happening in the moment.
While this essay had deep undertones of guilt, the narrator says he doesn't blame anyone for what happened, but acknowledges that if anything had changed it would be different. I enjoyed the analysis of one moment that altered a life.
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