Attn @joshspero.ft.com

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It doesn't LIKE recognising them. But like an abused pet, it is all it knows, and so it snarls and cowers in alternation, forever

1 egg = 1 memory retained

Absolutely huge respect to the woman in Duty Free sampling a free shot of vodka at 7.42am

Maybe one thing you can say in Tara Selter's favour is she never has to wake up to learn it's International Men's Day

WHY IS IT A CULT. It's probably the cinema with the least adverts in any part of London? Just accept 45 seconds of crap and move on

Although I did feel relieved when I checked my phone this morning and it wasn't the 18th November again

Oh well, only six months til the next one (drums fingers restlessly)

He's stopped because he hasn't thought of a suitable response to the Rolex ads

Eurosuite? A bit electro-y to be proper thrash but certainly feels like having your skull sandblasted, and seemingly not fascists

humanworth.bandcamp.com/album/sorry

God I love Jack the Modernist so much. It's just so *fun*, tricksy and witty and slightly obnoxious, and the dialogue captures so perfectly the way we perform for each other. Why why why can't I write like this??!

Thank you! Next time I shall set up a gofundme or encourage people to pour jewels into my open grave

I have a stress headache, my left eye keeps twitching, I forgot to eat lunch and have nothing in for dinner, the last 4 pages of the submission is unfocused and shit. But hey! No one else in human history ever has tried to write a novel, so sacrifices must be made

case, what matters about Istvan's story specifically - and is this cold brutal style really embodying masculinity if it's also in the female perspective? Or is this just a style Szalay is projecting onto the story and characters - and if so could it be doing it about anyone, and any subject/issue?

(a) not so different to things Szalay has said before; and (b) undermined by two passages when he switches POV into the consciousness of a supporting character, and uses the same cold blank style, even for the female character. So is it that *everyone's* alienated and emotionally stunted, in which