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All the voices

And in a certain ever-so- sympathetic mood they’d tut with false pity and start saying it was a shame about my legs and that it must have been awful to have to limp. I’d got what was left of my bread out of the wrapper and was about to toast it when Glea suddenly said she’d looked up ‘Dell’ on the internet and it meant a woody valley. Did I know that that’s what my name meant, she wanted to know? And she said she had also looked up Damien but weren’t quite sure whether it meant the person was tame themselves or was a tamer of other things. It was a bit unclear. Aggie had joined in and said it was fascinating looking into the meaning of names. To me though this name

thing was too obsessional, as I’ve said. As if the name itself meant a whole lot more than it did. An underlying thought: It’s like when people set up stand ins for the real and then they’ve related to them so much they have got confused: In their minds the stand in has become the real. They have lost sight of the difference altogether. You got people who went around kissing pictures of a celebrity they liked or sent birthday cards to some actor playing the part of this character they watched on tv. They were fooling themselves. And what would happen if they didn’t have all these celebs to follow; all this stuff to cling to, would they sink into the valley of the shadow of…? I came to

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