Status Updates From Dok imamo lica

i can’t live a lie any longer. for three years i’ve quoted parts of this book to people and used it in essays and talks. have i read this book? no. but in a few short days, i will no longer be a fraud

"as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other to the world's end. The freshness and wetness all about me (I had seen nothing but drought and withered things for many months before my sickness) made me feel that I had misjudged the world; it seemed kind, and laughing, as if its heart also danced.... Who can feel ugly when the heart meets delight?"