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“a few yards away, one of his dearest friends sat alone on a disgusting sofa, making the slow, sad, lonely journey back to consciousness, back to the land of the living, without anyone at all by his side.”

“Stepping out into the world in which no one knew him, and in which he could be anyone.”

‏And thus they were condemned to live in a shithole. And if they were, then this was probably the shithole to live in — it was cheap, it was downtown, and their prospective landlord already had a crush on fifty percent of them”

“his presence beneath Willem's bunk as familiar and constant as the sea.”