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Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

Will Self

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Will Self
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: September 26
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West London Infirmary
William Woodard Self
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