Existential Despair


The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Self-Portrait in Green
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The Sense of an Ending
Junky
In the Dream House
Heaven
Blindness
ميتتان لرجل واحد
The Calcutta Chromosome
Ham on Rye
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
The Sheltering Sky
Adam Scott Huerta
Imagine there’s no Sadness, it’s easy if you try…” whoever sings, John something.  “Nothing white inside us, around us only DIE… Imagine all the Shells, Loving everyday—“ 
Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

Scaachi Koul
Do other dads not end their phone calls with existential despair? Because that's what my dad does. Papa ends most of his calls with me the way you might close a conversation with someone you want to menace. "Anyway," he'll say, "I'll be here. Staring into the abyss." Or, when I have given him good news, "The talented will rule and the rest will perish in the sea of mediocrity." Or, when I have given him bad news, "I am for for everything that happens to you, as everything is my fault." He never ...more
Scaachi Koul

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