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John Semley

John Semley is a writer based in Toronto. He is the author of Hater: On the Virtues of Utter Disagreeability and This Is A Book About the Kids In The Hall.

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Essay by John Semley

A Long Year

As the months stretched on and days became meaningless, I did the natural thing—turned to 800-page novels and 15-hour German movies just to feel the passage of time in all its punishing slowness.

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