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“ What I don’t understand about your type is that you want to emulate the other side. You kick up such a commotion about being different, and all you want is to be the same. ”

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He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.

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All of them would understand, as he did now, that he had crossed a line in himself, he had left their world behind, the decent world of tea parties and suburban witticisms.

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There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.

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Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, Claire. “Damon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room.” The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]

~ Damon Galgut