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A haunting (Ian McEwan)

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He was thinking of that time, the way one does on long journeys when rootlessmess and boredom, lack of sleep or routine can summon from out of nowhere random stretches of the past, make them as real as a haunting.

Ian McEwan (in Solar)

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