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"I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all."
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"For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all."
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