Every Day Is for the Thief

by Teju Cole

So that what people in one part of the world think of as uniquely theirs takes its rightful place as a part of universal culture. Art can do that.

Faulkner said: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

A labyrinth’s winding paths lead, finally, to the meaningful center. A maze, in contrast, is full of cul-de-sacs, dead ends, false signals; a maze is the trickster god’s domain.