LAST WORD
Sublime thousand year tune takes the hum from the humdrum
11 May 2025 - 00:00
My first job as a quasi-adult was executed in a highly enthusiastic fashion in a building in the middle of town. I operated from 111 Commissioner Street as a public policy research hack. I was full of the joys of youth — which, in retrospect, involved a great many certitudes, all of which were held with extreme conviction and which have unfailingly proven to be total bollocks. All of them. ..
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