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Freya Abbas
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in Lucknow , India
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July 2013
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Observations
We live in a society. Indians are fine with you talking about your digestive issues, but white people get icked out by it. Meanwhile, white people are okay with you talking about your anxiety but Indians get icked out by it. If you're an anxious diasporoid with IBS, it's just over for you. You will never be fully accepted by anyone. No postcolonial scholar will ever write about this, but it's true
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"I would like to make it clear, right out front, that I adore some of Tom Stoppard's work. But this is insufferable, elitist piffle. The fact that it is so highly praised in so many circles confirms, to my mind, that the arts, like the rest of our cul"
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| Extremely mediocre play that doesn’t really hold up for modern audiences. Macbeth is far better if you like the theme of thwarted ambition and defiance of a king. And Macbeth is a much more interesting character than Guise. This play is interesting i ...more | |
“What shall I take with me?
Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?
How shall my heart act?
Is it that we come in vain to live,
to sprout over the earth?
Let us leave at least flowers,
let us leave at least songs.”
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Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?
How shall my heart act?
Is it that we come in vain to live,
to sprout over the earth?
Let us leave at least flowers,
let us leave at least songs.”
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“If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.”
― The Songlines
― The Songlines
“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
― Freedom
― Freedom
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