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On Being an Only Child →
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by Geoff Dyer
“I played Monopoly on my own. I played Cluedo on my own. When I eventually got round to it, masturbation seemed the natural outcome of my childhood.”
“Many of my values come from my parents: honesty, reliability, resilience: the bedrock values. But there are other qualities I have been attracted to—vivacity, charm, lightheartedness, grace, urbanity, doing...
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“On the metro, I have to ask a young woman to move the packages beside her to make room for me; she’s reading, her foot propped on the seat in front of her, and barely looks up as she pulls them to her. I sit, take out my own book—Cioran, The Temptation to Exist—and notice her glancing up from hers to take in the title of mine, and then, as Gombrowicz puts it, she “affirms herself physically,”...
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Agosto 2011
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