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Matt Haig. The Humans
Contents
Preface (An illogical hope in the face of overwhelming adversity)
The man I was not
Detached nouns and other early trials for the language-learner
Texaco
Corpus Christi
Human clothes
Questions
Coffee
Mad people
The cubic root of 912,673
Dead cows
The world as will and representation
Amnesia
4 Campion Row
The war and money show
A stranger
Starting the sequence
Primes
A moment of sheer terror
The distribution of prime numbers
Glory
Dark matter
Emily Dickinson
Dishwasher
A large house
Daniel Russell
The pain
Egypt
Where we are from
The dog and the music
Grigori Perelman
Crunchy wholenut peanut butter
Isobel’s dance
The mother
PART II. I held a jewel in my fingers
Sleepwalking
I was a wasn’t
Wider than the sky
A few seconds of silence over breakfast
Life/death/football
Light-bulb
Shopping
The Zeta Function
The problem with equations
The violet
The possibility of pain
Sloping roofs (and other ways to deal with the rain)
The thing with feathers
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens
In-between
Two weeks in the Dordogne and a box of dominoes
Social networking
Forever is composed of nows
Violence
The taste of her skin
The rhythm of life
Teenagers
Australian wine
The watcher
How to see for ever
The intruder
Perfect time
A king of infinite space
The art of letting go
Neuroadaptive activity
Platykurtic distribution
The Hat and Feathers
The ideal castle
Somewhere else
Places beyond logic
PART III. The wounded deer leaps the highest
An encounter with Winston Churchill
The replacement
A game
90.2 MHz
The ultimate crime
The nature of reality
A face as shocked as the moon
The second type of gravity
Advice for a human
A very brief hug
The melancholy beauty of the setting sun
When galaxies collide
Home
A note, and some acknowledgements
Sri Lanka, three weeks ago
Los Angeles, two weeks ago
London, now
London, 1623
