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Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms is to be strenuously avoided. How do you expect to get ahead? people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn’t want to get ahead, he simply wants to get away.

— J. Maarten Troost, Getting Stoned with Savages. 1-2.

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