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Monday, October 24, 2011

Infectious thoughts

I saw Steven Soderbergh's movie Contagion on the weekend. Travelling on the trains and trams today took on a decidedly ominous air. All those surfaces. All those sniffles. All those bodies. All that touching. All that breathing in and out. All those vectors. All that exchanging of DNA.

I didn't get phobic, but was mostly amused by my own sudden hyper-awareness of the perils of everyday modern living. Today we might catch a mere cold or flu from pushing the wrong door open, but tomorrow...

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