You Want It Darker — Farewell 2023, Roll in 2024

Xi Jinping's Empire of Tedium
Appendix LVIII
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In 2024 it will be a hundred years since Lu Xun published 'The Shadow's Farewell' 影的告別, a darkly mesmeric prose-poem about the dilemmas of the age. The somnolent narrator of the piece rejects the compromises demanded of everyday tedium, while

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