07.07.2026
S: When these English Literature types make the students write out their thoughts about novels, short stories, poems, anything at all really, what are they aiming at?
A: What indeed?
S: Is it difference in thought or is it conformity in thought?
A: Why do you ask?
S: Well, why do they never let you outright disagree with any critic that has had anything published before you came onto the scene?
A: So you are saying that they are the supporters of conformity?
S: What else then? Can they really value genuine difference? If genuine difference existed, would we even be able to comprehend what was being written?
A: You tell me. You are always boasting about having an interdisciplinary project that defied categorisation.
S: If they really valued difference and other orientations, why would they try to keep all of the students to their disciplinary confines?
A: Not everyone is like you. Not everyone can invent, invent and invent. You are perhaps too original.
S: There, you have said it. Because I do not conform, I cannot fit in.
A: Would you want to fit in? The ones that have read your book, the ones that have reviewed it, have they not lauded your innovations and your originality? Have they not said that you stand apart from everyone else? Accept it. That you are different. And, despite you being radically different, you have received praise for it from at least a few souls.
S: What is a piece of praise? You cannot eat praise.
A: Bread you can eat. But does it really satisfy?
S: Recognition, is it something that can quench this yearning?
A: If yearning could be quenched, there would only be satiation and complacency. Live. Write. Strike again. And again. The greatest are never defeated. They defeat the world.
diary of a lone man 