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Literary Essay

Protected: Drift or North: A Return from Exile and the Idea of the North

Brock Eldon
October 20, 2025
After more than a decade living in the crush and chaos of Southeast Asia, writer Brock Eldon came back to Canada to root his young family in a place of promise and possibility. He found instead a country in an advanced state of administrative rot and a people who have abandoned ambition for shallow self-righteousness. In this provocative literary essay, Eldon explores the North he long imagined and discovers that returning is not the same as belonging.
Literary Essay

Protected: Drift or North: A Return from Exile and the Idea of the North

Brock Eldon
October 20, 2025
After more than a decade living in the crush and chaos of Southeast Asia, writer Brock Eldon came back to Canada to root his young family in a place of promise and possibility. He found instead a country in an advanced state of administrative rot and a people who have abandoned ambition for shallow self-righteousness. In this provocative literary essay, Eldon explores the North he long imagined and discovers that returning is not the same as belonging.
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