One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: Taraneh Javanbakht is an Iranian-Canadian scientist, philosopher, artist, writer, poet, translator, literary critic, peer-reviewer, editor and human rights activist.
