I took a sentence from an earlier draft of Seven Things I Remember That Never Happened and ran it through ten languages and back.The original: Memory is not an archive of the past but a workshop where we rewrite our o...
Continue reading> LOADING FREE WILL...> LICENSE: CORPORATE> SPONSORED CONTENT DETECTED> SELF-LEGISLATION: PRE-WRITTEN1. The Original DignityKant’s version, before the rebranding: autonomy is self-legislation. Not doing wh...
Continue readingSteven Hall (b. 1975, Derbyshire) published his first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, in 2007: the story of a man hunted by a shark made of words, it became an international bestseller, won the Somerset Maugham Award, and landed its author on Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists list. Then, for fourteen years, nothing. Maxwell’s Demon (2021) is his second novel. It is, among many other things, a book about why certain things take fourteen years.
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