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So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

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Will Self
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: September 26
Author
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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West London Infirmary
William Woodard Self
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