No Commercial Potential: Till human voices wake us and we drown.

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Metaphysical Hangover 13 January 2009

When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover…. You have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a shit you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is.

— Kingsley Amis

Fine, it’s a hangover. But what the fuck did I drink?

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