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IN his first novel Lucky Jim, the English writer, Kingsley Amis, describes the moment the book’s hero, Jim Dixon, awakens after a night out on the town.
“The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did... A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he’d somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.”