Intimations: Six Essays, Zadie Smith’s latest book, rests on this conundrum. We can only find our way about a world whose dimensions we can articulate. The contradiction is strange, of course, but also perhaps a necessary crutch. Even as they tell us to be open to undefined days, endless articles and Instagram posts speculate about what those days will look like. But while we brace ourselves for that imperceptible future, we fail to follow the advice. Obviously, the future has no proper blueprint at the moment, so we are urged to be patient, pliant. Uncertainty has perhaps become the most popular descriptor of our new pandemic lives.
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