On Exile by Anton Hur via Litro Magazine

If you want to write, you have to exile yourself from your “self” and learn to follow the language to reach the truth that is not you.

Seoul, South Korea Picture Credits: Josh Hallett Read Part 1: On Silence I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning.— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 1.Bangkok I have a theory that Joyce meant “exile” not from Ireland but from the self. That if you want to write, you have to exile yourself from your “self” and learn t

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