In Cyber Space, No One Can Hear You Scream
Dear Virtual FriendMay I call you that? I’ve no idea whether you’re reading this in Bombay , Barcelona or Basingstoke, but I need to feel someone out there, even a complete stranger whom I’m never met, actually cares about me. Today my whole life was turned upside down, and I don’t know who I am anymore. I feel like that chap in Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’, only I haven’t even turned into a beetle, but something much further down the insect pecking order – a wood louse or carpet bug, perhaps.
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