“All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched.”
- Seneca, Consolation to Helvia, Dialogues and Letters
When I was four or five, my mother took a watercolour painting class. It was a rare indulgence on her part and, it’s clear to me now, evidence of a desire for some aut…
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