First Draft - Akwaeke Emezi
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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Are You Willing to Blow Up Your Life Just for This?
I wanted to ask you about this idea of permanence. It came in a little bit at the end, but because you're talking so much about loss and death for some of these characters. That fear, i think, comes in when you find new love is like, is it going to be there? You have a line in there where fay's talking too someone who commissions her art. And she says, i think people desire permanence. But then the person who's commissioning the art says, we know all too well how futile. Such a desire can be, don't we and they do.
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