I’m starting to think that I’m never going to be able to hold down a job for any length of time, since I rapidly fall out of love with most every one I try. Granted, a lot of it has to do with the fact that I can’t actually think of any job worth [...]
‘I thought everything I liked would happen. I never imagined it would be impossible.’
I watched Ten last night, and towards the end a disappointed and freshly shaven-headed woman cries the above lines. I paused the film and made the grunting sound of assent that I make when something moves me, when I feel a force [...]
England is the kind of country that makes you feel like nothing is possible. Like you have no opportunities. Like you have to accept a life worn down by poverty and greyness.
Don’t ever move here, it’s hell. Actually, it’s not even hell because that’s too substantial. It’s an immaterial place, it’s not fully real. Visit [...]
In my last year at university I wrote two 5,000 word essays and two 10,000 word essays and then there was all the work associated with my Persian/Farsi language class. One of those 5,000 word essays was on Sufi poetry and the other was a study of a Syrian mystic and an analytical comparison of [...]
