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Chapter 37
Explanation and Analysis—More You've Lost:
Kirsten and August discuss whether it’s easier to remember everything or remember nothing after the death of the modern world. Here, the narrator uses situational irony to highlight the painful burden of remembering the world before the Georgia Flu, as Kirsten muses:
But my point is, doesn’t it seem to you that the people who have the hardest time in this—this current era, whatever you want to call it, the world after the Georgia Flu—doesn’t it seem like the people who struggle the most with it are the people who remember the old world clearly? [...] What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.
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