I couldn’t look at bright colours all day, which must be why – apart from the bright blue Kaküno pen-top, and the red spine of one notebook – the desktop is dull gold and the things on it are matt black or grey. It is as if everything here were seen through a transparent mist that doesn’t block but bleaches. I can turn the Kaküno pen upside down in the …
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