Contrasts

One of these things is not like the other (or rather, two of these things are the same);

"There is violence but also deep caring; fear but also courage; want but also generosity; despair but also hopelessness"

From The Age A2 section, 13/01, in the review of Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall who apparently slummed it hardcore for 6 months and signed a publishing deal halfway through his time in a shantytown on the edges of Toronto.

What I'm left wondering is if the broken couplet at the end is actually the reviewer's personal cry for help. Or whether they have come to terms with the idea that it is now hopeless to expect anyone to be denied a publishing deal for writing anything, ever. Even if that deal is just with blogger.

It's bothered me all day.