Gnomon

by Nick Harkaway

I teach them reading and disrespect for authority, and I consider my work well done.

Fernweh. It’s German – the longing to be somewhere one has never been,

The odds, therefore, are negligible that we live in the origin universe, and considerable that we are quite a few steps down the layers of reality.

Get down on your knees and cry God for Baudrillard. It takes a Frenchman, evidently, to demand that if it must be whimsical and impenetrable, it should also be enjoyable.

He is one of those who hides uncertainty in jovial humour: Gordon’s alive!

‘Eleven hundred men went in the water. Three hundred and sixteen men come out. Sharks took the rest.’