They met again by way of a birthday. Ella, a pretty blonde who, despite of - or indeed owing to - being oblivious to her natural beauty (she had a charming face adorned with tender hazel eyes and a body whose shapes would flatter even the plainest of girl) had a callous attitude as if she’d lived through the Prague Spring. She’d been sharing a room with Nataša for the past four years, together with their friend Josh in a nice flat in North West London. The two girls had becom

“Maturity, the way I understand it,” he told me, “is knowing what your limitations are.” He wasn’t far from Bokonon in defining maturity. “Maturity,” Bokonon tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” - K. Vonnegut, Cats Cradle Je me retrouve aux passages de rites jamais visités, à l’âge adulte que je n’ai point cherché, qui plane au dessus de ma tête avec la pesanteur de l’orage. J’observe la jeunesse au

What have I learnt from my years studying at university? It seems as though I have not learnt anything until I put any of it into practice - and how might one do so when what was learnt were the liberal arts? Politics Philosophy and History... other than becoming a teacher and perpetuating the same cycle - as if the only purpose of learning something was to then teach it. How do I apply any of it? All I did at university was learn to form opinions about what other people had