After my reading at Wageningen University, part of my guest lectureship at that university, there were drinks and snacks.
I shook hands, greeted friends, acquaintances, publishers, old girlfriends, new girlfriends, CPAs and my mother.
It’s at moments like that that the superfluousness of being seems to be evident.
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