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    Tonight I can't cook. I can't even face ordering takeaway from Baan Thai and going through the Hiller shit. And I don't want to walk up to Waterworks Road for Lebanese cause it's uphill. I get in my car, thinking I might drive till I find something that suits me. At West End maybe, somewhere interesting. Somewhere cheap and Vietnamese and all by myself.
    The car doesn't start. I've flattened the battery by not shutting the door properly and leaving the inside light on last night after tennis. (p. 159)

    I don't sleep. I seem to have stopped sleeping now, and to have replaced the process entirely with angst-ridden, guilt-ridden unproductive thought.
    At around two o'clock I walk up to Wee Willie Winkie's on Waterworks Road (Open Twenty-Four Hours a Day, 365 Days a Year) and I buy a packet of Tim Tams. I stand outside the store eating them and watching the occasional cars speed past, heading out of town and down the hill into Ashgrove. (p. 162)

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