‘I find this division into three groups of people– allergy sufferers, skiers, and drivers– very convincing. It is a good, straightforward typology. Skiers are hedonists. They are carried down the slopes. Whereas drivers prefer to take their fate into their hands, although their spines often suffer as a result; we all know life is hard. Whereas the allergy sufferers are always at war. I must surely be an allergy sufferer.’
Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead
Absence Club 