{"product_id":"late-night-blues-by-lin-jiarui","title":"Late Night Blues by Lin Jiarui","description":"\u003cp\u003eLate Night Blues by Lin Jiarui\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting is one of those things that, however often you return to it, something new can still emerge. And it will, with graceful languor – time after time again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe begin with the cheekily paradoxical: writing as a violation of the second law of thermodynamics. As the universe descends towards chaos, words – encased in ink, or pixelated on a screen – always seem to endow the world with a delicate, sprawling structure, extending to the bounds of awareness. Which leaves a troubling possibility: that perhaps we ended off with more turmoil than we started with. Call it turmoil, call it complexity. Either way, one cannot exist without the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen there’s writing as catharsis, an emotional purgation of sorts. (Note to dear reader: watch as negative emotions abound in hyperbole and unbridled locution.) At times we are left spent and temporarily wasted; at others we feel relieved, a kind of peace almost bleeding into happiness. Or writing as an externalisation of internal disorder; where for a moment, the tempest abates to a whisper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gifted Exchange","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45050468204614,"sku":null,"price":19.8,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0014\/8871\/5846\/files\/Jia_Rui.jpg?v=1778826182","url":"https:\/\/www.gifted-exchange.com\/products\/late-night-blues-by-lin-jiarui","provider":"Gifted Exchange","version":"1.0","type":"link"}