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High-Rise - The Architect
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Dr Laing. I hear you play squash.
Yes, I do. You built all this?
Dreamt. Conceived. I hardly rolled my sleeves up.
Course... the project's far from finished.
There'll be five towers in all, circling the lake.
Something like an open hand.
The lake is the palm,
and we stand on the distal phalanx of the index finger.
I've put all my energies into this tower.
I'm its midwife, so to speak.
It looks like the unconscious diagram of some kind of psychic event.
- Well, that's good. Can I use that? - By all means.
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