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3 years, 5 months ago

made me melancholy for the first time

[...] What the hell (I was in Paris). Afterwards I walked along the Seine in the early evening where groups of friends and lovers were drinking wine and picnicking on coats spread out on the grass (as the sun was going down). I sat on the grass (a couple with bare feet were sleeping on a blanket ri…

—p.231 This Is Memorial Device Blood and Water Inside Me That Needs an Example (228) by David Keenan
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3 years, 5 months ago

you genuinely can’t be arsed

SH: I worked in a shoe shop in Coatbridge for one day and got fired. I couldn’t be arsed going into the stock room and finding different sizes so I would just automatically tell people that everything was out of stock. You genuinely can’t be arsed, the manager said to me, can you? He seemed kind of…

—p.187 Every Disappointment Was Like Something Awarded You in Heaven (181) by David Keenan
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3 years, 5 months ago

I had been brought up on things like combs

[...] He was wearing a pair of jeans and a black V-neck T-shirt and one of those checked seventies lumberjack jackets and a pair of baseball boots, I think, and I sat down next to him and asked him about music. He went on about Wire, Pink Flag, which was fine with me, but then he had this thing abo…

—p.184 Every Disappointment Was Like Something Awarded You in Heaven (181) by David Keenan
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3 years, 5 months ago

at last we can have some coherence in this band

The next day we visited Goosey in the hospital. It’ll be wigs from here on out, lads, he told us, that’s what they’re saying, and secretly I thought at last we can have some coherence in this band but then I felt bad, his head was mangled, he looked like a skinned beetroot. We’ve located Mad Mary, …

—p.177 I Thought They Had Cut the Top of His Head Off and Were Spooning Out His Brains (172) by David Keenan
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3 years, 5 months ago

I might have ended up in Israel myself

It was an early-morning flight. Lubby had arranged everything. They were to stay with a friend who lived in a suite in a hotel on the shore at Tel Aviv and from there they would make contact with a humanitarian organisation and relocate to a distribution hub on the Gaza Strip; though when I looked …

—p.129 Chasing a Twenty-Year-Old Girl Halfway Round the World and Setting Up Shop in a War Zone (125) by David Keenan