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If the whiteness they pursue is cool and haughty and blank,
history is uncool, reaches out gawkily for affinities, asserts itself boldly,
threatens to mark, to break through and stain the primed white canvas
that is their life.
For, having primed it, they do not know where to start,
how to make a mark. They are alone in the world, a small new
island of whiteness. Or so they think; they do not know, or perhaps
they do not want to know, that the neighbourhood is full of people
like them. Thus they are steeped in its silence.
Zoë Wicomb
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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Zoë Wicomb
Born:
November 23, 1948
(age 76)
Bio:
Zoë Wicomb is a South African-Scottish author.
Known for:
Playing in the light (2006)
David's Story (2000)
You can't get lost in Cape Town (1987)
October: A Novel (2013)
The One That Got Away: Short Stories (2008)
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