Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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Times Are Bad and Proust is Too Short

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Penelope Reading a Letter from her husband Odysseus, by Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (18th Century)

These are liquid times.

Everything seems to be in a state of flux. Uncertain, unsettled, unpredictable.

We like to believe that time is linear, orderly. Doctor Martin Luther King’s brilliant quote remains as inspiring and motivating today as it was yesterd…

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