HIRAETH.

<p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Main Character (Welsh Virgo ENTP emo 32 M) abandons the decadent neo-colonialist lifestyle of an English-as-a-Foreign-Language Teacher to pursue the workshy millennial ideal of life as a digital nomad.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A quick visit to Wales becomes months and months and etc. of escalating and easing lockdowns marathon video chats Valleys bike rides & ticket-free train travel socially-distanced booze & weed sessions and legally-questionable house and shed visits with his Dad & the Boys mental disequilibrium fuelling an obsession with becoming a generation-defining best-selling author:</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the Welsh Irvine Welsh the ginger Jack Kerouac the broke Bret Easton Ellis the homebound Hunter S Thompson penning Fear & Loathing in the Living Room:</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a Tao Lin-eclipsing autofictional Voice of His Generation.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>hiraeth [n.] [Welsh] </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>an intense sense of longing for your homeland.</span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>HIRAETH. [alt] [ALL CAPS.] </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>an existential moron's lockdown novel; Proust-like chronicling of life during a once-in-a-century viral outbreak - novel autofiction exploiting the millions dead from a novel virus to bring its author closer to enablement of his delusions than ever before.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p>