How can I accept that disaster has overtaken my life when the world continues to move so tranquilly through… — J. M. Coetzee

Truly, man was not made to live alone!

The new men of Empire are the ones who believe in fresh starts, new chapters, clean pages; I struggle on with the old story, hoping that before it is finished it will reveal to me why it was that I thought it worth the trouble.

I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would learn to respect them.