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I Lost My Backpack with Passports and Laptop
A tale about mixing GABAergics, neuroticism, responsibility and Heidegger
Yet I must admit that alcohol has a certain a e s t h e t i c. Other substances work in such small doses, that you take them as powders, pills, tabs, and solutions — as if you were a disembodied clump of consciousness, only accidentally trapped in the prison of a meatbag. Rationally I knew the UK doesn’t care much about personal-use quantities of drugs, let alone microscopic traces of them, yet my neurotic mind painted vivid scenes of retribution — as if I’d left a suitcase full of cocaine bricks at the border. And now every day I try to pick one small thing to improve at home: ordering a set of drawer organisers, deciding on the perfect place to store a pair of scissors, taking a mental note to buy a poster for the wall, and so on.
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