Zadie Smith - Feel Free.pdf

lessons in her way of viewing

formality or fear fell away,

earliest

what’s astonishing to me now is that I found none of this unusual or a special piece of luck. I, too, thought of free time as my God-given right.

Optimism infused with nostalgia:

me. I felt a wonderful lightness in my body, a ridiculous happiness, it seemed to come from nowhere. I’d lost my job, a certain version of my life, my privacy, yet all these things felt small and petty next to this

I wondered: why me?

crazed buoyancy