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Jun 26Liked by Nick Harkaway

The Titan Trump image has given me the heebie-jeebies. I will have nightmares. Thank you, Nick!

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There needs to be a boilerplate disclaimer for such enormitous missives: "No illegal drugs are required for the writing or reading of this."

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"I tell you, sometimes you really do feel that the universe is screwing with you."

I'm getting flashbacks to March 2020 and my now-trunked novel. If spending five years working on a meticulously researched novel about a global pandemic only to get gazumped by reality isn't proof that the universe fucks with people, I don't know what is.

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By the way, your sand-pit reference made me think of “Gone-Away World”. We all know what happened at the sand-pit in that story.

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OK, I'm going to bite: should it be cachet, not caché?

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