"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

Long live the King

The greatness of a man is measured by the amount of people he is able to touch. Today, another great man has passed away and I cannot even begin to describe how inspirational it is to know he had decided to dedicate himself to work and care for others even with the terrible secret he was carrying within himself. The fabric of a true hero.

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Ben Okri’s The Famished Road

Azaro is an abiku, a spirit child that sneaks his way into his mother’s womb only to enjoy a brief stay into our world and then die. They’re considered malign spirits and the grief they cause is immense, hence the tradition of scarring the faces

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Snow Country

Sometimes you read a book with beautiful prose and well-constructed characters but, when you put it down, you couldn’t tell the plot if your life depended upon it. Kawabata Yasunari‘s Snow Country is one of these books. Born in 1899, the author won the Nobel

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