Never become attached to anything you can’t walk away from in five seconds.” Summoning the will to walk away is not a possibility for most people. They’re thwarted not by carelessness but by caring.
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This is the part that captures my imagination and somehow endears John Darwin to me, in spite of his Machiavellian scheme. His duplicity encapsulates the joy of faking death: things are not as they seem, and the mundane facts of life might hold a secret, an alternate reality, right under our noses. It’s like training my gaze on the one tranquil slice of the Seaton Carew horizon line while neglecting to see the rest. Forget about the sons, and the wife, and the financial crimes for a moment and just look at the brains and the balls that faking death requires. It’s nothing short of magic.
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