Teju Cole Quotes

The Past, If There Is Such A Thing, Is Mostly Empty Space, Great Expanses Of Nothing, In Which Significant Persons And Events Float. Nigeria Was Like That For Me: Mostly Forgotten, Except For Those Few Things That I Remembered With An Outsize Intensity. These Were The Things That Had Been Solidified In My Mind By Reiteration, That Recurred In Dreams And Daily Thoughts: Certain Faces, Certain Conversations, Which, Taken As A Group, Represented A Secure Version Of The Past That I Had Been Constructing Since 1992. But There Was Another, Irruptive, Sense Of Things Past. The Sudden Reencounter In The Present, Of Something Or Someone Long Forgotten, Some Part Of Myself I Had Relegated To Childhood And To Africa.

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