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STUCK in lockdown and slowly going mad? Can I recommend you read Dan Rhodes’ When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow, which is the story of Professor Richard Dawkins also stuck in a lockdown, due to a snowstorm, and also apparently going bonkers.

I first came across Dan Rhodes through his short stories. 

When I say short, they were really short. His earlier book, Anthropology, is of 101 stories, each 101 words long, so he knows all about economy and brevity. He can be funny and sharp and can get emotional depth out of fewer words.  

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