Scanning recently published books, and in particular those written by debutant authors is usually a discomforting task. Thin storylines, vague characterisation or downright abuse of language (and not in any creative sense) is par. Will time iconise these works just like they did with the works of the Beat generation? Ginsberg, Burroughs.
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all honesty, there are but a few works of art that modern people interested in understanding their own lives should at least have a perpetual glance at. And no – I’m not talking about any self-help books or DYI-checklists. That stuff [...]
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April 19, 2009Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really.