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The books that have kept me alive

I expected that being poisoned would be rather invigorating – similar to a whiff of tear gas in a riot

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

In bed

Safety measures — I’ve never been good at them, so inevitably I inhaled and got soaked by the toxic agricultural chemical I was out spraying on a windy day in Kenya. At 49, I’m not worried about triggering distant future tumours — or infertility — and I’m still waiting to pay back on the mortgage of my misspent youth.

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