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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe


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Frankly, I'm shocked no one has brought up the short story "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" by Carson McCullers. The author came up with the idea for the short story through a series of correspondence with a fellow writer.

Her letter-writing friend felt that "eros" represented the highest form of love. McCullers felt the highest form of love, "agape", was independent of romance and sex. To illustrate this, she wrote of a love triangle featuring three characters that were not sexually attracted to each other in any way, but with all the features of any other kind of deep relationship.

Again, if you have not read this fine short story, give it a look. It's the most clear example of asexuality in a story that I know of.

By the way, the Wikipedia entry for this story is rather oversimplified and feels like it was written by someone with a middle school education. Not that a middle school education is bad, just the entry could have been better written and expounded upon. There's so much in characterization and theme that is not touched upon at all.

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