in defense of pretension. - by ayan artan - rent free.
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may this be the year of the snob.
corpses walk among us. they might look like you and i but in truth, they are contaminated by a disease that has turned them into empty shells, mannequins masquerading as people. richard hofstadter had a word for this sickness- anti-intellectualism- but i call it the death of our nafsaad. of our person-hoods. my mother says that i came out of the womb reading. every significant moment in my life is irrevocably linked to some form of art. my teenage years, filled with self-questioning and resistance meant a bedside table covered with paperbacks carrying malorie blackman, jacqueline wilson and…
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