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Letting Go

Ever since I was little, I have occasionally been getting these visions when I am half asleep. It’s that semi-lucid state where you’re still awake on some level, but have let go of control over your body, and are waiting for the consciousness in your mind to settle down already and go to sleep as well. […]

Isolation

English has two words for the same thing: isle and island. The first derives from the Latin īnsula while the second comes from the Old Germanic agwjō– (water) and landa (land). They both mean a bit of land surrounded by water, a feature of the Earth that has been important to people for a long […]

No Control · On The Wasp Factory

Few novels compelled me as much to immediately write my thoughts down as The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Usually I enjoy novels a lot while reading them (or not), but quickly dive into a new one afterwards. In this case, I felt the need to spend some words on it before moving on. I’m pretty sure this […]