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is the assertion of the possibility of fellowship in a world built entirely from the materials of solitude.

*To be an addict is to be something of a cognitive acrobat. You spread versions of yourself around, giving each person the truth he or she needs'you need, actually'to keep them at a remove.

is the midnight disease, it is lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.

The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.

Michael Chabon

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