I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone…

David Mitchell
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I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People. ✨ David Mitchell (2008). Cloud Atlas: A Novel, p.168, Random House
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