Chapter 23 - 6,000 reasons to burn my laptop. Apparently.
Customs: Do you have anything to declare? Writer: I’ve the internet browser history of a fiction writer. *gets wrestled to the ground*
Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book does not shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we’d be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe.” — Franz Kafka
I went in an Apple store. They knew me by name and that I’d had my mac repaired by them.
Now I’m worried there was something dodgy on my laptop!
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