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My thoughts / caption:

You know when you’re somewhere unfamiliar - in a new city, sleeping at a friend of a friend’s place for example, but there are certain actions that bring you back to yourself. A cigarette on the balcony, a coffee made from the espresso machine in the kitchen that you sip slowly as you read the morning paper.

When you’re sitting

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My favourite passage from the book:

“That I smoked hash with tobacco was critical during this phase of my project, although I was resolved never to smoke a cigarette again after leaving Spain, and so smoked with particular abandon, critical because the cigarette or spliff was an indispensable technology, a substitute for speech in social situations,

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