by Patrick C\u0103linescu<\/p>\n
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How can I become a great stylist in English (for I have long been wanting to be become one), when I\u2019m in the middle of bloody nowhere, and nowhere to be seen anywhere in the four corners of the English-speaking world?<\/p>\n
How can I become my finest, yet dream-y, accomplishment with no access to anyone speaking English natively; and with no access whatsoever to the tons of good books in the English world; and with no access to the English world itself?<\/p>\n
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I want to become a great stylist in English while practically being completely isolated from everything English.<\/p>\n
And I wonder… Am I so mad to want to achieve the seemingly impossible?<\/p>\n
For tell me at least one person to have done it without being firmly set in the English world.<\/p>\n
Would Joseph Conrad have done it if he hadn\u2019t lived all his adult life surrounded by the best kind of Englishness his own time could offer him?<\/p>\n
Would Vladimir Nabokov have done it if he hadn\u2019t moved to America when he was entering the most creatively energetic period of his life?<\/p>\n
Would Tom Stoppard have done it if he hadn\u2019t moved to England when he was still a boy?<\/p>\n
Would Salman Rushdie have done it if he hadn\u2019t immersed himself in the best milieu of Englishness he could ever hope to be in?<\/p>\n
So I wonder… I have none of that, but that doesn\u2019t stop me from pushing on\u2014from pressing on\u2014from soldiering on on the front line of my big dream; that one day, just one day, I would become a great stylist in English; a writer with no country; but a writer of the land of the English language\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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