Earnest, driven, Gemini.
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Imaginative, dull, amiable.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 October 2023 source ↗
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Curious, kind and frustrating – because I ask too many questions.
Big, shy, angry.
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View profile →The idiocy of going to Skye from New Zealand in April 2020. All of a sudden, I’m turning on the news and hearing myself as an item. I have never been more mortified.
I’ve never read Proust.
I like the idea of being atoms that other people can breathe in, and fabulous worm food.
Mostly the pain. I don’t want to be trapped in a body that hurts.
The only job I quit was, aged about 23, subediting a “men’s” magazine. My job was typing out readers’ pornographic fantasies. I started wishing people would reproduce by splitting down the middle.
As someone who left the world slightly more interesting than he found it.
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