The White Mare

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By Michael McLaverty
Foreword by Miguel Mesquita da Cunha
(2006)

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This short story by Irish writer Michael McLaverty looks at the life of an elderly farmer to reveal profound insights on the human condition and the beauty and struggles of the world we inhabit.

Providing us with the details in the life of an elderly farmer plowing his field, McLaverty introduces important universal themes—including work and our relation to it, beauty and suffering, and the transitions of life—and helps us to live deeper within the question of what it all means. The selection is also a good introduction to the transparent yet evocative prose of an under-appreciated twentieth-century master of the short story.

Category: Readings (No. 42)

You say that it is difficult to put this advice into practice. Who denies it? Plato has a fitting saying: “Those things which are beautiful are also difficult.” Nothing is harder than for a man to conquer himself, but there is no greater reward or blessing.

Desiderius Erasmus, The Handbook of the Militant Christian (1503)

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