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When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn't need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that's just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it's just what you've been searching for all these years.
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Alex Garland |
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If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.
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Alex Garland |
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Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.
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Alex Garland |
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There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.
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Alex Garland |
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Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.
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Alex Garland |
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1e8a4c3
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I don't keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don't travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.
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Alex Garland |
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Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is the generation that travels the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite & never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience-- And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.
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Alex Garland |
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If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. DOn't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a vida, pack a bag, and it just happens.
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Alex Garland |
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0c3d900
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I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.
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the-coma
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Alex Garland |
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b135fbb
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You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.
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Alex Garland |
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bdf6b94
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There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear.
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Alex Garland |
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4d77fd2
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I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off
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poverty
travel
haggling
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Alex Garland |
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98a1d57
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Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle barrel, flying on a helicopter with opera blasting out of loudspeakers, tracer-fire and paddy-field scenery, the smell of napalm in the morning. Long time.
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Alex Garland |
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004f2d4
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The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.
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Alex Garland |
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17153fa
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I biked over to my dad's flat and emotionally blackmailed him into lending me enough cash to leave the country. On that trip I learnt something very inmortant. Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment i boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.
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Alex Garland |
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c1fd9d9
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As for me... I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare. I carry a lot of scares. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scares.
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travel
life
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Alex Garland |
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40e188a
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That was longer than a heartbeat.
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alex-garland
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Alex Garland |
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cf2a29c
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Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness.
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israeli
moshe
the-beach
gun
laugh
madman
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Alex Garland |
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74150ed
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The dilapidation was not a memory but a representation of a poorly remembered past.
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the-coma
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Alex Garland |
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7888ab9
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You learn about me, and I learn nothing about you. That's not a foundation on which friendships are based.
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Alex Garland |
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I once read the most widely understood word in the whole world is 'OK', followed by 'Coke', as in cola. I think they should do the survey again, this time checking for 'Game Over'. Game Over is my favorite thing about playing video games. Actually, I should qualify that. It's the split second before Game Over that's my favorite thing. Streetfighter II - an oldie but goldie - with Leo controlling Ryu. Ryu's his best character because he's a..
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Alex Garland |
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fe4d63d
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An hour later we were walking past rows of busy beach huts and weaving between sunbathers and Frisbee games. I was surprised that people weren't taking more notice of us. Everyone looked so strange to me that I couldn't believe I didn't look equally strange to them.
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Alex Garland |
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ca0eb86
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transparent evasion exercises.
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Alex Garland |
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bca9796
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You wake, you die.
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Alex Garland |
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b0df149
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You never listen to me anymore. Before, if I was talking to you, you would always listen. But now you have no time to even talk to me. 'Yeah... Has Keaty told you not to eat the Stew?' 'Richard!' I frowned 'What?' 'You are not listening to me!' '... Oh. Well I'm sorry. I've got a lot on my mind.' 'Not me.' 'Huh?' 'I am not on your mind.' 'Uh... of course you are.' 'I am not' she poked me in the ribs. 'I think you do not love me anymore.' I ..
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sexual-tension
flirting
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Alex Garland |
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a1bba42
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There was nothing strange about it. Jed and i were on a covert mission. We had dinoculars, jungle, a quarry, a threat, the hidden presence of AK-47s and slanted eyes. The only missing element was a Doors soundtrack.
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mystery-and-thriller-books
the-beach
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Alex Garland |
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6dd5878
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I remembered a few things about waking. I remembered the sense of surprise as dream life and waking life swapped primacy, and the way in which the most tangible and deeply involving dreams could bleach entirely away.
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Alex Garland |
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9e1fa63
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The challenge is not to act automatically. It's to find an action that is not automatic. From painting, to breathing, to talking, to fucking. To falling in love...
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Alex Garland |
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I didn't get the impression that the policeman cared much about the whole thing either. After another thirty minutes of ruthless interrogation ('Can you ve'fy you eat banan' pancake?') he let me go asking me not to leave Khao San within 24 hours
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travel
thailand
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Alex Garland |
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dec27f6
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He spoke in english. Not flawlessly by any means. Not like a Nazi POW camp commandant who appreciates english poetry and says things like 'you know, we are much alike, you and I I'. But good enough
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nazi
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Alex Garland |
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4a32f71
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Ava's living area is made up of three primary spaces.
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Alex Garland |
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ed6ee7b
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Jed! I got stuck in some air pocket with more exits than..." I couldn't think of anything famous with a large number of exits "I nearly drowned!"
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Alex Garland |
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25e0e89
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Delo v tom, chto galaktiki razbegaiutsia v raznye storony, kak tochki na sharike, kogda ego naduvaesh'. U atoma vodoroda tol'ko odin proton. V kaple vody sotni millionov atomov vodoroda, a galaktiki sostoiat iz soten millionov zvezd. Deviat' planet vrashchaiutsia vokrug nashei zvezdy. My ne tsentr Solnechnoi sistemy, a Solnechnaia sistema sovsem ne tsentr nashei galaktiki, kotoraia v svoiu ochered' ne iavliaetsia tsentrom razbegaiushcheisia..
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Alex Garland |
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e6998f4
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chucking him the packet. 'Sten's still lying in that sleeping-bag
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Alex Garland |
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532d604
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I was pleased to see the pale shapes, floating in the water like drops of silvery oil. I loved their straightforward weirdness, the strange area they occupied between plant and animal life.
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Alex Garland |
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f518eea
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Voz'mi shest' kubikov i slozhi ikh v forme raspiatiia. Potom voz'mi eshche dva i raspolozhi ikh po obeim storonam kresta. U tebia poluchilsia tesserakt, trekhmernaia figura. No eto vsego lish' sled chetyrekhmernogo kuba. Esli razlozhit' kvadrat, poluchitsia liniia. Dva izmereniia skladyvaiutsia v odno. Kub skladyvaetsia v krest. Tri izmereniia prevrashchaiutsia v dva. Proektsiia giperkuba daet tesserakt. Chetyre izmereniia skladyvaiutsia v ..
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Alex Garland |
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a9004e7
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I paused. "...I'm not dreaming." "True." "Then I'm going insane." "Do you want an honest answer?" "Yes." He shrugged. "I'd only query the tense. But I'm not a professional, so, you know, seek out a second opinion."
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Alex Garland |
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88fb9e2
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I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and hating getting ripped off.
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Alex Garland |
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5d3ef08
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Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.
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Alex Garland |