Word: unwantedness
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Once I got there, it was no longer possible to stem the flood of unwanted discoveries of how many people were how often how truly disposable. We won't mention the six prostitutes who were my roommates in a dingy hostel this summer; that would be sensationalist, not to mention...
It's the sound of a lost world. Listen to the exquisitely romantic lilt of the voice floating out of Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer, and you can imagine the rakish young Cuban singer, decades ago, strolling the elegant boulevards of Havana. It was there that Ferrer first...
If you spend any time at all on the Internet, you probably get spam - unsolicited e-mail containing advertising and other unwanted dreck. According to a recent Gartner Group survey, 91% of people online are spammed at least once a week. Usually it's easier just to accept it, like...
They became inseparable. Alice cooked, typed manuscripts, fended off the unwanted, did promotions and chatted up the wives and significant others of famous men, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso. Alice was "Pussy" to Gertrude; Gertrude was "Lovey" to Alice. And...
Of course, I have not always felt that way. There were times when I was downright miserable. My academic performance plummeted from near-perfect marks as a first-year to Group III. For a time, I found myself withdrawing socially, a situation that even led to an unwanted late-night...