You will be pleased to hear that my research gains ever more detail — my collection of slides is prodigious. I continue to write. My thoughts on comparative architecture have grown somewhat although the essence of that piece I sent you years ago remains. You called it 'brilliant'. As always, you supported me. There were times when only you believed in me and in those moments it was your confidence in my ability that convinced me to believe in myself. Today, I no longer have to dig quite so deeply to find that self-belief. And yet, what good is that belief when the landscape is so hostile? The country I live in now is not the one I approached with so much hope all those years ago. Yet having invested this much in it, how can I leave? Since March, we have had a new government our Party at its helm, but I don't know whether it makes any difference any more. Aren't they all the same...The Sri Lankan architect, Minnette de Silva, inspires a novel which explores what it takes to be an architect, the limits of cross-cultural fusion through what appears to be an imagined relationship with modernist Le Corbusier, and the ways in which the work of women professionals is circumscribed by their gender. It is not, however, true to the tale of her life.
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