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Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
Will Self
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Will Self
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: September 26
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Don't look back until you've written an entire draft.
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