Lars Iyer

“I romanticised Mancunian despair, W says. I didn't realise that Mancunian despair is only the desire to leave Manchester”

“You have to be gentle with the young, W. says. They're a gentle generation, like fauns, he says, and require a special tenderness. Their lives are going to be bad--very bad--and, at the very least, we should be tender with them, and not remind them of what is to come.”