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Kazuo Ishiguro

“You know, Raymond, when you're at a party, at a dance. And it's maybe a slow dance, and you're with the person you really want to be with, and the rest of the room's supposed to vanish. But somehow it doesn't. It just doesn't. You know there's no one half as nice as the guy in your arms. And yet.... well, there are all these people everywhere else in the room. They don't leave you alone. They keep shouting and waving and doing daft things just to attract your attention. "Oi! How can you be satisfied with that?1 You can do much better! Look over here!" It's like they're shouting things like that all the time. And so it gets hopeless, you just can't dance quietly with your guy. Do you know what I mean, Raymond?”

Kazuo Ishiguro, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
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