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A passage from this novel by Hanya Yanagihara:

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uncommon life [purely anecdotal]
More of a journey than a gateway
If we seek to understand each other
as if it were the only thing
Pipes and flowers from Balmoral
all the tired horses
NORTH ROAD
WHO says:
Business is booming [Porter’s Bell]
Business is booming [‘Just honest-to-goodness NEON’]
Business is booming [favouring the narrative controllers]
Business is booming [‘Half of all Scots’]
PROXIMITY
‘I see it feelingly’
Throwing hats up in the air
i n f i n i t e
“the boundaries”
The next station is ANGEL
Direct your energy into your creativity
‘like watching a movie that can never be paused’
the art
Go firmly to the window
‘The Car’
The constant tug between nature and civilisation
SCREAM
Perhaps you remember those days
Keeps us on our toes
There often didn’t seem words for
Woodside Hotel
Oor auld greenhoose
‘Footway Closed’
‘Kindness, I’ve discovered is everything’
ICE-CREAM
LOGIE
every poem in time
Old Gorbals
kindness
amazing the difference a wee shift of stance makes
Elizabeth and Ada
‘This much I know’
HEATWAVE
it glinted
One-third of Scotland
trashing their reputation
cashing in
An overlooked Scot
TENDER [tinder]
No pure logic here
we stand with her
and get it wrong
all played out
global
Brewlands bridge
salutation
please + thank you
clouds
reaching for the SUN
“The Blairgowrie Juniors berrypickers’ weigh-in-lottery”
Come back the earth
In my waking dream
All the sky
Take me to the river
Wander, wonder, be yersel!
‘All the sky’s silences; its dialects’
Take me to the river
This was NOT news
Up the ANTI-
“flattering and gratifying”
homesick
“If they stopped listening to industry”
to learn from the experience of others
[more-than-a-little] BAZIRE
“To encourage respect”
Florence
Maidsmill
Based on a theory
Go seek adventures
Love me tender
The last of Pat Conway
What world is this?
Spa Magazine No. 1
[aspects and ratios] tomorrow is another day
to speak our life as we feel it is a freedom
Language matters
Doune the Rabbit Hole
dream of horses
Radical landscapes
Led Astray – Industry’s Influence on Drug and Device Watchdogs
Medicine remains as conflicted as ever
John Byrne
Reality’s finally hit
A report about trust
she saw the world
On the values of trust and kindness
Radical landscapes
“hostility”
as a star fades
“Elusive”
Who is wagging the dogs tail?
safe & effective
The Social Media Policy of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
“Latter-day anti-psychiatrists”
“Ten FACTS”
The International Congress [Net Surplus]
art beat
‘odious situation’
Respecting rules
“eat, heat, or on the street”
temporary traffic-lights
a (rain-caused) digression
Peace Pigeons
Peter and Sian’s garden
The [much expanded] ‘Press Office’ of the Society ‘declined’ to comment:
Oh dear, this is not a good sign
bring back that summer
A professor of the past
Living well with dementia
More than 7 years on and little has changed
these COLOURS
‘certain varieties of self-awareness’
all our yesterdays
on the one hand
willed blindness to actuality
an extended dose
Balhary Walled Garden
This one’s from the heart
‘Chumcentric’
vox humana
MELVENS
talent
stravaiging
auditions in PROGRESS
Science Media Centre
a dog named Spot
from ‘Landscape with the fall of Icarus’
Fairyland
The Editor of the Scotsman on VALUES
‘decent standards’
A recent headline
Gascon Ha’
Bridge of Allan gardens
Professor Bertram Copeland Rumfoord
ASK the EXPERTS.
beneath the blue-arched sky
A creeping autocracy
open to IDEAS
The blue sky arched above us
Let creative voices spark a revolution
f a m i l i a r
A change in the weather

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