
First Draft - Tsering Yangzom Lama
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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Exile and Humanism
Exile is neither aesthetically nor humanistically comprehensible at mo. The literature about exile objectifies an anguish in a predicament most people rarely experience first hand. Against this large, impersonal setting, exile cannot be made to serve notions of humanism on the twentieth century scale. Can you share something you wrote? Maybe it was tricky or hard or changed a lot from the first draft. So this is from the beginning of tanke section, which i found to be very difficult to write. I rewrote it many, many times an so this is the beginning of her section. And i have almost nothing from the start of my life, not your face and not bala's. All
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