‘You’ve never opened a newspaper?’

‘Yes probably,’ said Jed good naturedly, but in fact he had no memory of ever doing so. He managed to visualise piles of Figaro Magazine on a coffee table, in his dentist’s waiting room; but his dental problems had been solved a long time ago. In any case he had never felt the need to buy a newspaper. In Paris the atmosphere is saturated with information. Whether you like it or not, you see the headlines in the kiosks, you hear conversations in the supermarket queues. When he went to the Creuse for his grandmother’s funeral, he’d realised that the atmospheric density of information diminished considerably the further you got away from the capital; and that, more generally, human affairs lost their importance, and gradually everything disappeared, except plants.

Michel Houellebecq, The Map And The Territory

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