“I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.”
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I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
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