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To us and a wonderful evening of love making.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Evening
Love Making
Wonderful
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I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Love
Bigs
Fans
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...I want to grab her collarbones as if they were handlebars.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Ifs
Want
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Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Dad
Blue
Boxing
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Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Jealous
Diaries
Trying
Writing
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I would never say snog. I would say osculate." She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Ifs
Look At Me
Looks
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It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Forget
Mother
Strange
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I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Life Is
Reality
Way
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Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Doe
Easy
Greyhounds
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I took a photo of us, mid-embrace. When I am old and alone I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Love
Beautiful
Most Romantic
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There will be birds and if they write your name in the sky then you can get on the buses and if they don't you have to die on the floor.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Names
Sky
Writing
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For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Dad
Lasts
Pockets
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I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
America
Firsts
Smell
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That's a big love letter," she says, squinting. I know what I'm going to say and for a moment I wish there was a film crew documenting my day-to-day life: "I've got a big heart," I say.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Heart
Squinting
Wish
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Most people think of themselves as individuals, that there's no one on the planet like them. This thought motivates them to get out of bed, eat food and walk around like nothing's wrong.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Names
People
Thinking
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My mother tells me I do not chew my food enough; she says I am making it harder for my body to get the essential nutrients it needs. If she were here, I would remind her that I am eating a blueberry Pop-Tart.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Essentials
Mother
Needs
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Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started: Dear Diary, I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity. God alive, I feel supple.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Jealous
Morning
Exercise
Writing
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I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being Oliver. I am suddenly aware of the separation between my-actual-self and myself-as-seen-by-others. Who would win in an arm wrestle? Who is better-looking? Who has the higher IQ?
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Ceilings
Self
Winning
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After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel like a distant bureaucracy controlled by telegrams from her brain, and I said my body is sometimes like that of Mario Mario, being controlled with a Nintendo joypad. Mario's surname is Mario.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Body
Brain
Nintendo
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I was camped at the same site as her: Broughton Farm. She came over to my tent and showed me her blisters. She asked me whether I knew the reason why a blister can keep on producing fluid ad infinitum. I said that I had always wondered the same thing about mucus. One of the reasons we are together is because we have similar interests.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Reason Why
Tents
Together
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I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside me operating the levers of a life-size Oliver-shaped shell. A shell on which a decrepit picture show replays the same handful of images. Every night I come to the same place and wait till the sky catches up with my mood. The pattern is set. This is, no doubt, the end.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Night
Sky
Waiting
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I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people would react to my death. Mr Dunthorne's quavering voice as he makes the announcement. The shocked faces of my classmates. A playground bedecked with flowers. The empty stillness of a school corridor. Local news analysis. . . . The steady stoicism of my parents. . . . Candlelit vigils. . . . And finally, my glorious resurrection.
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Flower
Reality
School
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Oh diary, I love her, I love her, I love her so much. Jordana is the most amazing person I have ever met. I could eat her. I could drink her blood. She's the only person I would allow to be shrunk to microscopic size and explore me in a tiny submersible machine. She is wonderful and beautiful and sensitive and funny and sexy. She's too good for me, she's too good for anyone! All I could do was let her know. I said: "I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Beautiful
Love You
Sexy
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The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear." She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again.
Joe Dunthorne / Novelist
Teacher
Fall
Writing
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