Martin Amis - London Fields (1989)

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Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find.

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I know what his poetry will be about. What poetry is always about. The cruelty of the poet's mistress.

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He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

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She was sitting there beside the bookcase, trying to read, in a growing panic of self-consciousness. Why? Because reading presupposed a future.

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Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

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Class! Yes, it's still here. Terrific staying power, and against the historical odds. What is it with that old, old crap? The class system just doesn't know when to call it a day. Even a nuclear holocaust, I think, would fail to make that much of a dent in it.

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It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.

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And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

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He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had any business being like this. A car in the street. Why? Why cars? This is what an artist has to be: harassed to the point of insanity or stupefaction by first principles.

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