Inspiration

 

  He thought of how the world organizes its affairs so that civilization every day commits crimes for which any individual would be imprisoned for life. And how people accept this either by ignoring it and calling it current affairs or politics and calling that space their private life. And the more in that private life they break with civilization, the more the private life becomes a secret life, the freer they feel. But it is not so. You are never free of the world; to share life is to share guilt.

-Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North