isn't this how life turns out, more often that not? it refuses to conform to your needs-- the narrative needs that you feel are essential to give rough shape to your time on earth... hard to live with, this: hard to come to terms with the fact that it was just another botched operation, another baffling run of bad luck... feelings of depression; feelings of frustration; feelings of emptiness in the face of all this randomness-- done down by the haphazard, yet again.

-william boyd, any human heart

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