I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have… - Teju Cole

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I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.

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Teju Cole (born June 27, 1975) is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer, and art historian.

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Jonathan Lethem V. S. Naipaul William Gibson Martin Amis Nadine Gordimer

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I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.”

WE EXPERIENCE LIFE AS A CONTINUITY, AND ONLY AFTER IT FALLS away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.

And again, the empty space that was, I now saw and admitted, the obvious: the ruins of the World Trade Center. The place had become a metonym of its disaster.

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