“…we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us…”

– Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar Pollak, 1904

The Frozen Sea Inside is where I occasionally post short pieces of writing and notes. Other work can be found on my personal website at https://www.ianalanpaul.com

If you’d like to get in touch, you can reach me at elbienmaspreciado (аt) ianalanpaul (dоt) com