You want one hundred years of solitude? Good luck

Sunday Times Lifestyle

TELFORD VICE, Johannesburg

“The day shit is worth money,” Gabriel Garcia Marquez famously said, “poor people will be born without assholes.” Gabo had a point. So did Garbo, as in Greta, when she famously said: “I want to be left alone.”

Rich and poor alike are born without smartphones, tablets and laptops. Once they acquire them – and they will – they will never again be left alone.

Anyone who acquires a tattoo will never again be naked, but ink squirted under the skin does...