Journal 41

I had to return a third time to, and through, Akuressa - wretched place. Worse than Colombo. Colombo, of course, has a great number of illusions and accompanying nonsense, Akuressa tries to imitate all of this ('cosmopolitanism' is one of the euphemisms for these illusions and nonsense; 'society' is another), but fails; thus they have here only the illusion of Colombo: that is, the illusion of an illusion, They doubly deceive themselves…