Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs …

Irvine Welsh
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Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done. ✨ Irvine Welsh (2008). Trainspotting, p.96, Random House
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