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"The trouble is that Adams has been using the machine long enough that he feels dependent on it, even if he struggles to get it to work as he wants."

"I used to get quite a lot of these emails and I did indeed take part in book clubs, festivals and TV programmes about books. The difference now is that the clubs, festivals and programmes don’t seem to exist." —Christina Patterson via

Sugar.

      "subvortex"

Nights in July in Texas, never dipping
under eighty, the pool bathwater-warm.
Cicadas all day long thrash raucous hymn
   nastily carping.
July nights, their annulling
      humid clasp
nothing before mooring
   our cloistered drift;
lit windows · that were less views
than unkept promises & now too late—
Texas July trundles into Europe
on Panzer treads; nightmares sponge-envelope
   (cicadas assert)
while here (heavily) · a glow ebbs.

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