I promised my family I would turn away from my studies, all the while resolving to continue in secret. I committed everything I knew to memory, burned all my papers, and embroidered my most unfathomable and precious secrets in near-invisible thread on my security blanket, which as you can see, I carry still.

Leonid is a good host, a busy host. / He has no time to feel alone.

The archetype of the Magical Negro is an issue of race. It is the subordination of a minority figure masked as the empowerment of one.