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<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>To hear Paul Reverb tell it he's fine.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Sure he's been caught in a compromising situation by his window cleaner and failed to prevent daylight robbery and yes he no longer tells people he was born the day </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Sergeant Pepper</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> was released as to his horror people no longer know what a </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Sergeant Pepper</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> is.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Fine.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>But Paul </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>isn't</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> fine. He hates his job and he's not fond of his friends. He sits in his dead parents' flat surrounded by his carefully curated reassuringly warm vinyl not writing the novel he's not been writing for a decade. Paul is lonely to his bones and will likely stay that way until his dead body is found by his cleaner.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Will Paul Reverb ever find happiness? Will he even recognise it if he does? And who cares if a middle-aged man finds happiness anyway?</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Fine</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> is coarse. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Fine</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> is sad and sweet and crude and beautiful. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Fine</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> is scurrilously funny while making your bottom lip tremble. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Fine</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> is a rallying cry for growing old riotously for not going gently and for not judging people by the state of their recycling bins.</span></p><p><br></p>