I have always thought this was one of the main drives of the loneliness pandemic.
Pursue those goals and grow into your own kind of man or woman. You arrived there at the cost of neglecting all else. And at the end of it all, you have an apartment all to yourself, with everything, but warmth.
Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida is how to write a a book.
The best criticisms, I believe, are subjective, because subjectivity—and I daresay, sharpened subjectivity—is by large an aspect of independent thought, which is needed for the divergence that births new modes of thought.
I finally have this essay out. The song "Ripple Effect" by Dark Poet is one of Nigeria's best rap song ever recorded. I wrote about it here, where a half of Hennessy is raised to the symbolic in a dark twist of fate.
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What are the chances of an Italian-manufactured motorcycle, a Cagiva Mito, becoming a landmark in faraway Makurdi?
"To write as though only one kind of reality subsists in the world is to act out a mentally retarded mime, for a mentally deficient audience."
—Dambudzo Marechera
