You can think of the loneliness of the long-distance runner with artist-triathlon athlete-pianist Guido van der Werve, who returned from the brink of death. But he also recovered through all the people around him. And because, he says, he is quite competitive. In the collage-like Number Eighteen, he considers his life since then with typical sobriety and darkly comical asides.

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