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Public Library 23.8
First and, as far as we’re concerned, foremost, our More or Less fiction series.
Will the internet create a universal writing system? OUP has its say.
How can uncontacted Amazonian tribes be wiped out if they don’t exist? Via The Guardian.
Amir Sulaiman’s ‘Love Song’. Not a song about love - love as song. A song that is love.
BibliOdyssey’s 1000th [...]
Intercourse
More or Less part V
I ruined it because for seven or eight months I didn’t try and she didn’t ask. There is not an explanation – I was simply not in the mood for the entire time and I think she interpreted this as the crossing of an invisible threshold, maybe one of age.
We have [...]
Television
More or Less part IV
There is nothing on. Of course, there are things on – when nobody at all is awake to watch there are still things, images, on the screen if the television is turned ‘ON’. I mean nothing I am interested in is on. This annoys me greatly – my night depends on [...]
Washing up
More or Less part III
I rinse with hot water. It stings my skin but I have grown accustomed to it. The pain is a good thing – it’s cleansing. It means my cutlery, plates, bowls and pots are being cleaned and sterilised. Sometimes I have to pull my hand away. I think of my liking [...]
Eating
More or Less part II
At the stroke of 12.30, I leave my desk and take my lunch out of the kitchen fridge. The apogee of my day is not home time – rather, it is this oasis in the middle of the day. I imagine my feelings about lunchtime to be equivalent to the feeling [...]
Showering
More or Less part I
On weekends, usually Sunday and depending what I’m doing that day, I step more or less out of the water and, with a bar of soap wrapped in a face-washer, I lather myself up, chest and arms first then working my way down. I lather myself completely. This has two functions [...]