Finally read @mjohnharrison's newish book. A summary:
* this probably isn't a biography.
* climbing: now there's a thing.
* not sure whether it's a good idea to outlive the cat.
* where did I put my notebook(s)?

Highly recommended to fans of all of the above.

Okay, back to K-pop and old computers.
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1/2

‘Wish I Was Here’: this delightful, insightful, stubbornly peculiar anti-memoir by Mike Harrison is my book of the year so far; can’t see anything overtaking it, frankly.

The writing is as luminously sui generis and haunting as his best work, although there’s so much in that category to render the superlative clumsy. It’s also fictively tricksy, memory standing in for the undeniable, unreliable narrator, … (continued)

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"[L]et’s think a bit more about this complex business of relating what we think of as a self to what we think of as a past."

Lovely short interview with @mjohnharrison here:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/m-john-harrison-i-want-to-be-the-first-human-to-imitate-chatgpt-wish-i-was-here

Mentions being a chocolate addict. I know the feeling, and can recommend a supplier - Zotter.
https://www.zotter.at/en/online-shop/brands/labooko
Their Labooko range is my drug of choice nowadays.

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