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Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Andrew O'Hagan • Mayflies: A MAJOR BBC DRAMA FOR CHRISTMAS 2022
His hands were large and expressive, and he had moved easily in his chair, as if he felt it a pleasure to inhabit a body of which he’d never been ashamed – he’d smelt not of soap or fragrance but of clean skin. His lips had looked as if they had ashes on them: ‘He needs to drink more water,’ said Thomas tenderly, ‘or he’ll get headaches.’
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
Books became my closest confidants, finely ground lenses providing new views of the world.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
gnomish quality about everything. A smaller-than-life quality, with a dash of the droll. What is this five-thousand-year-old book? The Mickey Mouse watch, Mr Tagomi himself, the fragile cup in Mr Tagomi’s hand … and, on the wall facing Mr Baynes, an enormous buffalo head, ugly and menacing.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)

‘That’s the story,’ I said. ‘But with Tully it’s hard. He’s one of those people. We struggle to accept he’s not twenty. Him not being twenty means that none of us is twenty. Him dying means we all are. That’s what gets everybody – he was always first with everything and now he’s showing us how to die.’
Andrew O'Hagan • Mayflies: A MAJOR BBC DRAMA FOR CHRISTMAS 2022
