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My years in America, more or less.

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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night. — Friedrich Nietzsche ‘Beyond Good and Evil’

Chaos

‘Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.’ —Henry Miller, ‘Tropic of Capricorn’

True fiction etc

Music Movies True Fiction

  • 39,000 feet
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