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  1. Iain Banks _ Stonemouth

    This is so much like the old days. And, again, I have mixed feelings. In some ways it's good and comfortable to be fitting straight back in like I've never been away, but, on the other hand, I'm getting this constrictive feeling as well. It's the same places - like the bars and pubs on Friday night - the same people, the same conversations, the same arguments and the same attitudes. Five years away and not much seems to have changed. I can't decide if this is good or bad.
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  2. Iain Banks _ The Wasp Factory

    I'm doing fine. I eat dogs! Heh heh heh!' I
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  3. Iain Banks _ The Wasp Factory

    I switched the light out again. The room was totally dark, not even the starlight showing while my eyes adjusted. Perhaps I would ask for one of those LED alarm radios, though I'm very fond of my old brass alarm clock. Once I tied a wasp tot the striking-surface of each of the copper-coloured bells on top, where the little hammer would hit them in the morning when the alarm went off. I always wake up before the alarm goes, so I got to watch.
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  4. Iain Banks _ The Crow Road

    It was the day my grandmother exploded.
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  5. Iain Banks _ The Wasp Factory

    All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.
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  6. Iain Banks _ The Hydrogen Sonata

    One should never mistake pattern for meaning.
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