Why do I always forget that sleeping on overnight buses is impossible unless your body is the right size for the seats, (about 4 feet tall) and you have your own gravity system which makes the reclined seat appear something less than vertical? Ah well, going between Spain and Italy at night meant I didn’t […]
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I was multiply surprised when I was awoken this morning. The first thing that surprised me was my mysterious landlady’s voice. I opened my eyes in terror, and found that she wasn’t in fact standing over my bed with a megaphone. She was in an entirely separate part of the building, but her armour-piercing voice
I started eating again yesterday, after three days of water fasting. Some fasters get strange revelations and divine insight. One book has a character called Moses who comes back with the law after 40 days of fasting. The only illumination I had was actually during my first proper meal, where I struggled with a bottle
