The Corrosive Element in Our Lives
How do you not waste your life?
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6 min readOct 15, 2023
Sometimes it takes a grave diagnosis, unexpected tragedy, or unfortunate turn of events to shake us out of our quotidian stupor.
In the exquisitely sad film Living, actor Bill Nighy plays a joyless civil servant named Rodney Williams who works in the bureaucratic morass of the public works department. Set in 1953 London…
