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The Price of Being Hur
A Life Lived Free
The Price of Being Hur
An accounting of freedom, its consequences, and the distance between a name and a life.
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THE OPEN MANUSCRIPT⸺Syed Muhammad Hur Jaffri◇
The Chains We Call Choice
A Critique of Freedom, Consciousness, and the Self-Deceiving Animal
The Chains We Call Choice
A philosophical examination of choice, inherited beliefs, morality, and the stories that sustain the self.
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Where Could He Be Now?
The Archive of Absent People
Where Could He Be Now?
A psychological novella about the lives beyond old images, the passage of time, and the people who remain in memory.
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On Justifying the Unjustifiable
A Philosophy of Sin, Repentance, and the Self That Must Account for Both
On Justifying the Unjustifiable
An inquiry into repentance, the excavation of motive, and the point where an explanation becomes an alibi.
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The Second Sin
On the Crime Committed in the Explaining
The Second Sin
On the original wrong and the continuing act of making it bearable through explanation.
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The Gap
A Story in Memories and One Letter Never Sent
The Gap
A story of a son, a father, and the distance held in ordinary moments.
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The Lucid Animal
On the Impossibility of Seeing Clearly and the Necessity of Trying
The Lucid Animal
An examination of clear sight, uncertainty, and the effort to think honestly while living a life.
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What I Should Have Said
A Novel
What I Should Have Said
A novel about Zakariya, memory, and the sentences that arrive too late.
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