He is not a refugee; or rather, a claim on his part to be a refugee will get him nowhere with the Home Office. Who is oppressing you?, the Home Office will say. From what are you fleeing? From boredom, he will reply. From philistinism. From atrophy of the moral life. From shame. Where will such a plea get him?
Youth. J.M. Coetzee
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The pressure to conform in Japanese society made being a punk risky – even
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