"He sits in his car at traffic lights……" — Elliot Perlman
"He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others"
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Elliot Perlman
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