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Jan-Maat is on page 194 of 304

'Decent & level-headed people are hungry for violence...the ideal act of violence isn't directed at anything.'
'pure nihilism?'
'the exact opposite...it isn't a search for nothingness. It's a search for meaning. Blow up the Stock Exchange & you're rejecting global capitalism. Bomb the Ministry of Defence & you're protesting against war...but a truely pointless act of violence...grips our attention for months.

— Nov 01, 2026 08:33AM

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Jan-Maat is on page 268 of 304

'it's bad enough when working people torch their council estates, but if the middle classes take to the streets it spells real trouble.'
'you're right, Henry. The effect on property values...'
'unthinkable'.

— 32 minutes ago

Jan-Maat is on page 254 of 304

'what went wrong?'
'everything. Now I know why professionals always leave revolution to the amateurs.'

— 37 minutes ago

Jan-Maat is on page 240 of 304

i took my ticket from the dispenser, and drove past the administration office towards the B section of thecar oark. Despite the rapacious charges, almost every space was filled, a vast congregation of cars pointing towards their Mecca, the Heathrow control tower.

— 42 minutes ago

Jan-Maat is on page 226 of 304

The inspector shook his head in despair, but he had reckoned without the long-engrained ruthlessness of the middle class towards its own children. As I knew full well, any social group that would exile its offspring to the deforming rigours of boarding school life would think nothing of exposing them bto the haxards of an exploding bonfire.

— 21 hours, 33 min ago

Jan-Maat is on page 224 of 304

No middle-class revolutionary can defend the barricades eithout a shower and a large cappuccino. You might as well fight them in yesterday's underwear.

— 22 hours, 31 min ago

Jan-Maat is on page 218 of 304

Our marriage belonged to an adventure playground where real danger and real possibility never existed.

— Nov 01, 2026 09:05AM

Jan-Maat is on page 212 of 304

If I were to walk out of her life she would miss me intensely, for ten minutes. Then the next lodger would arrive and join the game of snakes and ladders that led to her bedroom.

— Nov 01, 2026 08:51AM

Jan-Maat is on page 181 of 304

Art exhibitions at the Tate Modern:

"This was the art show as Führer spectacle, an early sign, perhaps, that the educated middle classes were turning towards fascism."

— Nov 01, 2026 03:45AM

Jan-Maat is on page 180 of 304

The Thames shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but a rush of ugly water that had scented the open sea and was ready to make a run for it. Below Westminster the Thames became a bruiser of a river, like the people of the estuary, unimpressed by the money terracesof the City of London.

— Nov 01, 2026 03:35AM

Jan-Maat is on page 125 of 304

Like so many waiters I had known, he was friendly but slightly aggressive

— Nov 01, 2026 01:01AM