"Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged……" — Martin Amis

Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at,… - Martin Amis
"Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move, and now the flukey play is cramped and slow, a dream of constraint and cross-purpose, with each move forced, all pieces pinned and skewered and zugzwanged... But here and there we see these figures who appear to run on the true lines, and they are terrible examples. They're rich, usually."

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