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I wonder what contemporary intellectuals a comedian could reference on a primetime show and get a big laugh. The bloke who wrote Sapiens?

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Cor, it quotes the whole post! Game changer.

I'm not allowed to be melancholy anymore, sorry - doctor's/luka's orders.

I wasn't that sold on Midsommar as a horror movie so much as the most faithful on-screen depiction I've encountered of the experience of taking a nice amount of acid/shrooms, and then far too much ketamine, at a summer music festival.

I just can't imagine what kept me in some of these jobs/places over the years, except my old friend melancholy.

I lament most of the things I've ever not done (that old cliche), but I've been thinking more about my decisions (which weren't really decisions) post university. Principally not moving to London when all my friends lived there because of my weird resentment of London (4 pounds for a pint?!)...

What sort of shape are you in Danny? Are we talking rippling adonis or crippling arthritis?

Booze is interesting for melancholy cos (in my experience) it starts by removing it completely but if you become melancholy while pissed its 20x more powerful.

I'd love to be stripped to the waist looking like that, standing in the open air, a compact virile animal.

I actually have done this, somewhat consciously in the past — not gone to a party or whatever cos I'm scared, and been aware that as compensation I'd be able to writhe in exquisite misery over me not going...

Oh, I know that. It's a sort of compensation for being frightened of acting. You enjoy painfully musing on the life unlived.