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And why, on the other hand, do we pay respect, attention, and court to the useless and often very wicked man who lives only by their labour, and is rich only by their misery?

Why do we exist? Why does anything exist?

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Why do we abandon to contempt, debasement, oppression and rapine the great mass of those hard-working and harmless men who cultivate the earth every day of the year, that we may eat all of its fruits?...

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Why does a little whitish and offensive secretion form a being which will have hard bones, desires and thoughts? And why do these beings constantly persecute one another?

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My 2024 book "Stupid Stories for Tough Times" is a collection of funny, strange tales and fables, described by J.M. Hall as "beautiful, quirky bits of wisdom, [which] are continuing to haunt me in a gentle, understated way."

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My 2022 novel "Down to Earth" is a fable of the future set in a town trying to replicate an idealised, unchanging English past; Mike Leigh no less calls it a "brilliant dead-pan dystopian vision [which] is as compelling as it is disturbing and unsettling".

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Not always--one of his subjects was the grim horror of the plague—but often, and in any event always with the attitude of a dramatist, writing in many voices