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Nov. 26th, 2003 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
electriclandI am a wimp, with superb skills at self-sabotage when I want to avoid something.
To wit: I stayed up till about 2:30 last night reading In the Shadow of a Saint by Ken Wiwa because I got home too late to call people I really should be calling because I stayed late at work because I didn't feel like I got enough done yesterday because I was looking at websites instead of working for some of the time.
Don't worry about sorting that one out.
In the Shadow of a Saint is very absorbing. Not perfect by any means, but he's trying to deal with how children are always affected by their parents' choices in life, whether it's to follow them or react against them. And particularly the children of political martyrs, who are extra influenced by the "family business". He had a difficult relationship with his father that was just starting to get turned around when his father was executed. He interviewed Steve Biko's elder son and Nelson Mandela's younger daughter, as well as Aung San Suu Kyi, who told him "Alexander [her son] always refused to believe me when I told him I did not expect him to follow in his grandfather's and my footsteps."
To wit: I stayed up till about 2:30 last night reading In the Shadow of a Saint by Ken Wiwa because I got home too late to call people I really should be calling because I stayed late at work because I didn't feel like I got enough done yesterday because I was looking at websites instead of working for some of the time.
Don't worry about sorting that one out.
In the Shadow of a Saint is very absorbing. Not perfect by any means, but he's trying to deal with how children are always affected by their parents' choices in life, whether it's to follow them or react against them. And particularly the children of political martyrs, who are extra influenced by the "family business". He had a difficult relationship with his father that was just starting to get turned around when his father was executed. He interviewed Steve Biko's elder son and Nelson Mandela's younger daughter, as well as Aung San Suu Kyi, who told him "Alexander [her son] always refused to believe me when I told him I did not expect him to follow in his grandfather's and my footsteps."
