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Work #1375 · Late

Promise Me, Dad

Joseph R. Biden Jr.
2017 · English
Personal memoir of grief · American liberal-Democratic tradition

Biden's 2017 memoir of his son Beau's 2015 death

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Attribute Promise Me, Dad (Late)
Time · Extent Finite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Variable
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Passive
Observer · Number Singular
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Revelation
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Finite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Variable
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

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Time

Promise Me, Dad

2015 narrative; 2017 publication.

Space

Promise Me, Dad

American personal-political setting.

Matter

Promise Me, Dad

Biden family and the dying Beau.

Observer

Promise Me, Dad

Biden as grieving father and vice-president.

Energy

Promise Me, Dad

Grief-personal-religious energies.

Information

Promise Me, Dad

Memoir content.

Internal Tensions

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Promise Me, Dad

Promise Me, Dad has been universally well-received as personal-political-religious grief-memoir.