Personal Narratives

From the broad temporality

that this era forces us to make sense of, our existence is surely dependent

only on what it leaves behind.

That is, it forces us to imagine our lives as

the marks, remains and impacts we have left upon the Earth, without “our”

in

fl

uence to de

fi

ne exactly what was

meant

by these marks.

“Late style arrives when you realise that you are: competent enough to write those things you wanted to write when you were twenty-five; impatient enough to have one more go at going all the way; angry enough not to allow anyone else to persuade you to do something else. At the same time, late style is cold, amused, contemptuous and savage about... See more

"The stronger [the] identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction."