"...I have never met another person who denied that some of us are stronger, more athletic, or more learned than others. But many people find it difficult to acknowledge that a continuum of moral and spiritual wisdom exists..."
- Waking Up, Sam Harris
In Japanese, "tsundoku" means collecting books and letting them pile up, not from neglect but for the joy of knowing they're there, full of untold stories.
"First of all, Benedykt, you have to accept that money is made,’ Wielicki had sermonised.
‘Wealth is created not through robbing the poor, or through the flow of riches from hand to hand...
...and the number of people amongst whom it had to be shared – ever greater.
But God has ordained things otherwise: so that he who has the gumption and the will and the strength, the desire to work, he shall create something out of nothing,...
As conversations sethe about the “death” of Nigerian literature and the loss of authenticity in its poetry, a writer counters for the growing japa-MFA subculture: “I call them the Nomadic Generation because of their complication of nationalism.”
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