Squires, ConstanceLoftiss, Luke2020-07-102020-07-102014(AlmaMMSId)9982397585002196https://hdl.handle.net/11244/325192This thesis is a collection of eleven short, unrelated stories. These stories range in length from thirty-three to two pages. They are organized according to how I sensed they should be when I drew up the table of contents. I had not planned on there being any unifying theme to this collection but because I wrote most of these stories during the same short span of weeks, they couldn't keep from being influenced by what happened to be on my mind at the time. I didn't realize there was anything on my mind but when I read the stories I found that they were mostly asking two questions: What is beauty and how do we experience it? What is a mind and how do we experience it? Four questions. Whatever. Writers whose ideas influenced this collection include: Felisberto Hernandez, Franz Kafka, Jose Saramago, Philip K. Dick and Douglas Hofstadter. The title is meant to suggest that the collection is necessary if not sufficient..All rights reserved by the author, who has granted UCO Chambers Library the non-exclusive right to share this material in its online repositories. Contact UCO Chambers Library's Digital Initiatives Working Group at diwg@uco.edu for the permission policy on the use, reproduction or distribution of this material.Short storiesFictionAcademic theses(OCoLC)ocn922984583