resurrections

There are some things that you learn to live without. Writing is one of them for me; another i guess is intellectual challenge, that feeling you get when your mind is on fire with new ideas. You can get through life without these things; you get used to it. But all it takes is to get a taste of it again, and you realise how much you've missed it, without even realising it; how your life is so much richer in its presence.
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Perhaps that's why the PhD idea -- and the dream of a life in academia -- has never quite died. Every time i think i've finally managed to put it to rest, it somehow manages to resurrect itself at just the most inconvenient times. Should. Have. Done. Something more practical and marketable than Literature.
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