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our lives are easy, right?

"[...] You wanna know the secret? You do it for the feeling you get in the last minute. That's what you're looking for. Look, our lives are easy, right? We switch a button, the light comes on. Press another button, food gets cooked. But you gotta dig deeper than that when you run - into some deeper…

—p.144 Grand Union: Stories Big Week (131) by Zadie Smith
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only guy I know who still owns a beeper inspo/dialogue

"Only guy I know who still owns a beeper."

McRae looked up over his half-moons with a wide-open, undimmed enthusiasm that made even his gentlest son fear for him.

"Really? A lot of the guys at work have 'em."

—p.140 Big Week (131) by Zadie Smith
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gabardine

he got down on one gabardined knee

—p.36 Words and Music (35) by Zadie Smith
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somniferous

the strong yet somniferous current

—p.34 The Lazy River (25) by Zadie Smith
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creating surplus value for bloated plutocrats project/panopticon

From above came the noise of the workers laboring, hammering and nailing, creating surplus value for bloated plutocrats, while down below two anarchists [...]

—p.21 Sentimental Education (5) by Zadie Smith