Nick Cave is one of my favorite writers. His way of blending wisdom with compassion and poetry reminds me of that age before mass media, when people wrote each other letters.
Here’s one example, from his blog: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/a-message-i-could-show/
I really liked his response re the King’s coronation. Where he seemingly reflected not only on the monarchy, calling it “the bizarre, the uncanny, the stupefyingly spectacular, the awe-inspiring”, but also on all our institutions, and the world itself.
