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Duncan Macmillan

Lungs

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  • Ivana Reynosohas quoted6 years ago
    Look, alright, listen, you have to understand alright, I’m thinking out loud here so please just let me talk just let me think it through out loud please
  • Dmitry Grigorievhas quoted9 years ago
    I wish I’d read more when I was younger. Or just, maybe slept with more people. Or travelled. It’s going to be harder to travel now you know,
  • Dmitry Grigorievhas quoted9 years ago
    W
    I did some maths. How many plane trips? London to New York?
    M
    I
    W
    two thousand five hundred and fifty.
    M
    two / thousand
    W
    I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child.
    M
    You’re having second thoughts.
    W
    Ten thousand tonnes of CO
    2
    . That’s the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I’d be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.
    M
    You / wouldn’t be giving
    W
    and if we had a second it doesn’t just double because the chances of them reproducing and how many they might have and how many their children’s children might have and how many their children’s children’s children might have that goes up exponentially.
    Fuck recycling or electric cars, fuck energy efficient fucking light bulbs, unless educated, thoughtful people like us stop making babies the world is totally fucking fucked.
    M
    We should talk about this.
  • Ivana Reynosohas quoted5 years ago
    because it’s important probably the most important thing you could do to bring another person a yes a
    person
  • Ivana Reynosohas quoted5 years ago
    it’s just this picture of my life I’ve always had since I was able to think and I’ve never ever questioned it. Never.
  • Ivana Reynosohas quoted5 years ago
    and yes
    vomit
    even it’s all part of it, looking after it, caring for it that’s I think that’s the impulse
  • Ivana Reynosohas quoted5 years ago
    and adorable and with that milky head smell and the tiny socks and giggles
  • Ivana Reynosohas quoted5 years ago
    or singing to it reading Beatrix Potter or Dr Seus,
  • Ivana Reynosohas quoted5 years ago
    it’s always been an image,
    I guess, of myself with a bump and glowing in that motherly
  • Ivana Reynosohas quoted5 years ago
    And I’ve pushed it all down and focussed on my career, on my studies, on myself
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