(un)becoming the idiot
In this special substack.com re-cross-post, Su allows knaap.brief to publish a densely layered engagement - via the play of idiom/idiot/idiosyncrasy - with Elif Batuman's blistering 2017 The Idiot.
I have spent years of my life wallowing in a pit of my own solipsism. as a child, i recall that my mother would often express variations of, "stop being stuck in that head of yours", often followed by a less assertive warning that, “there is a world beyond your imagination”. when tasked with quotidian activities, feet firmly glued to the earth, mind occ…
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