There Is Something Peculiarly Dispriting About The

The Capital Amassed In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries Through Various Forms Of Slave Economy Is Still In Circulation, Said De Jong, Still Bearing Interest, Increasing Many Times Over And Continually Burgeoning Anew.

Like Our Bodies And Like Our Desires, The Machines We Have Devised Are Possessed Of A Heart Which Is Slowly Reduced To Embers.

We Take Almost All The Decisive Steps In Our Lives As A Result Of Slight Inner Adjustments Of Which We Are Barely Conscious.

It Is Thanks To My Evening Reading Alone That I Am Still More Or Less Sane.

A Wonderful Story Collection Set Between One Place And Another And Shaped By A Fearless Sense Of Comedy.