If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism - J. M. Coetzee

So when you climbed, he said, you had to go careful. You had to watch your older brother and follow close his moves. You had to think back on every step before you took it. Remembering hard the whole way up. ... "And if you can’t memory right," he said, "you lose."

From the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?

The new men of Empire are the ones who believe in fresh starts, new chapters, clean pages; I struggle on with the old story, hoping that before it is finished it will reveal to me why it was that I thought it worth the trouble.