Someone in my life is reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery right now and thought this excerpt may mean something to me... she was right. so hear it is... yet another fragment to add to myself.
"....Theo might want to burn cars some day. Because it's a gesture of frustration and anger, and maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from feeling that you have no culture, because you've been torn between cultures, between incompatible symbols. How can you exist if you don't know where you are? What do you do if your culture will always be that of Thai fishing village and of Parisian grands bourgeois at the same time? Or if you're the son of immigrants but also the citizen of an old, conservative nation? So you burn cars, because when you have no culture, you're no longer a civilized animal, you're a wild beast. And a wild beast burns and kills and plagues."
Thanks for thinking of me babe... even when i may scare you.
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