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A "talentless, misguided d******d" attempts to make being "Welsh & desperate" seem "sexy" against the backdrop of a global pandemic.
The Main Character (Welsh, Virgo, ENTP, emo, 32, M) spends the 2010s living the decadent neo-colonialist lifestyle of an English-as-a-Foreign-Language teacher while pursuing grandiose delusions of becoming a generation-defining best-selling author.
Freelance gigs writing copy for a cryptocurrency news website & American real estate company fund his freedom from the modest chains of a job with 4 months holiday at a Korean uni to pursue the workshy millennial ideal of life as a digital nomad.
January 2020 is spent necking soju in Seoul, huffing balloons in Ho Chi Minh, touring temple complexes & Khmer Rouge torture sites in Cambodia, etc., as news spreads of a novel new virus.
A month in Wales becomes months and months and etc. of escalating and easing lockdowns, marathon video chats, Valleys bike rides & ticket-free train travel, socially-distanced booze & weed sessions, and legally-questionable house and shed visits with his Dad & the Boys, mental disequilibrium fuelling an obsession with writing something which matters: a book saying something about The World in the 2020s, to fulfil his dominant goal of becoming a best-profiting prophet, internally conflicted by the contradiction of self-publishing pseudo-revolutionary literature to enrich himself & establish himself to the word processor as Jack Kerouac was to the typewriter: the Welsh Irvine Welsh, the broke Bret Easton Ellis, the homebound Hunter S Thompson, penning Fear & Loathing in the Living Room: a Tao Lin-eclipsing autofictional Voice of His Generation.
hiraeth [n.] [Welsh] an intense sense of longing for your homeland.
HIRAETH. [alt] [ALL CAPS.] an existential moron's lockdown novel; Proust-like chronicling of life during a once-in-a-century viral outbreak - novel autofiction exploiting the millions dead from a novel virus to bring its author closer to enablement of his delusions than ever before.
The Main Character (Welsh, Virgo, ENTP, emo, 32, M) spends the 2010s living the decadent neo-colonialist lifestyle of an English-as-a-Foreign-Language teacher while pursuing grandiose delusions of becoming a generation-defining best-selling author.
Freelance gigs writing copy for a cryptocurrency news website & American real estate company fund his freedom from the modest chains of a job with 4 months holiday at a Korean uni to pursue the workshy millennial ideal of life as a digital nomad.
January 2020 is spent necking soju in Seoul, huffing balloons in Ho Chi Minh, touring temple complexes & Khmer Rouge torture sites in Cambodia, etc., as news spreads of a novel new virus.
A month in Wales becomes months and months and etc. of escalating and easing lockdowns, marathon video chats, Valleys bike rides & ticket-free train travel, socially-distanced booze & weed sessions, and legally-questionable house and shed visits with his Dad & the Boys, mental disequilibrium fuelling an obsession with writing something which matters: a book saying something about The World in the 2020s, to fulfil his dominant goal of becoming a best-profiting prophet, internally conflicted by the contradiction of self-publishing pseudo-revolutionary literature to enrich himself & establish himself to the word processor as Jack Kerouac was to the typewriter: the Welsh Irvine Welsh, the broke Bret Easton Ellis, the homebound Hunter S Thompson, penning Fear & Loathing in the Living Room: a Tao Lin-eclipsing autofictional Voice of His Generation.
hiraeth [n.] [Welsh] an intense sense of longing for your homeland.
HIRAETH. [alt] [ALL CAPS.] an existential moron's lockdown novel; Proust-like chronicling of life during a once-in-a-century viral outbreak - novel autofiction exploiting the millions dead from a novel virus to bring its author closer to enablement of his delusions than ever before.