The Price of Being Hur

A Life Lived Free

By Hur

An accounting of freedom, its consequences, and the distance between a name and a life.

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01Opening pages
02PART ONE: THE ORDINARY PRISON "Man is condemned to be free." — Jean-Paul Sartre
03Chapter Two: The System and the Boy Who
04Chapter Three: The First Question
05PART TWO: THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESIRE "The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly one you can never have." — Søren Kierkegaard
06Chapter Four: Layla, or the Invention of Necessity
07Chapter Five: Sana and the Weight of Crossing
08Chapter Six: The Multiplication of Selves
09Chapter Seven: The Night the Walls Came In
10PART THREE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESIRE, COLLAPSING "If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." — Friedrich Nietzsche
11Chapter Eight: The Particular Cruelty of Being
12Chapter Nine: What the Mirror Showed Between
13Chapter Ten: The Proposal I Refused and the Shape
14PART FOUR: IRAQ, OR THE GEOGRAPHY OF
15Chapter Eleven: The Journey to the Place Where
16Chapter Twelve: The Philosophical Breakdown in
17Chapter Thirteen: The Twenty-Three Minute Call
18Chapter Fourteen: Eleven Numbers
19PART FIVE: THE DISINTEGRATION "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration." — Frank Herbert
20Chapter Fifteen: What Mental Health Looks Like
21Chapter Sixteen: The Afternoon the Self Went
22Chapter Seventeen: The Year That Did Not End
23PART SIX: THE PRICE, ITEMIZED "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." — Coco Chanel
24Chapter Eighteen: An Accounting
25Chapter Nineteen: What Nietzsche Did Not Tell You
26Chapter Twenty: The Women I Cannot Pay Back
27EPILOGUE