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'Do you find that in the phantasm of memory, places are larger than their physical reality? That a set of walls, columns, ceiling or windows, surface in your mind then tower over you like a Sphinx, contemplating you with entrenched superiority? History grows on places like a fungus until they have eyes of their own, a secret soul, a hidden murmur.'

This book is really unsettling.

'Before I even write the next line I want to put in a disclaimer. I can’t stand the thought of someone reading this and thinking “Oh wow, this guy is total xenophobic trash!” This is the situation: I was totally paranoid because the charliebot was talking some serious evil-alien shit, and I was worried they were regulars.'
Or maybe authors should just stop walking on eggshells and say what they say.

'The judderman is a thing born from brick and fright. The judderman is the hate that bubbles up between the cracks in the tarmac and spills over into riot and spilled blood. He is the spent fluid dripping down walls after desperate back-alley passions. He is the dereliction and the decay of London.'